Re: [OSSTEST Nested PATCH 2/6] Add and expose some testsupport APIs

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 04:45:55PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 16:20 +0000, Pang, LongtaoX wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > > The editconfig_cd thing -- yet another thing which Ian questioned
> > > > > > and which it was agreed you would change but you haven't.
> > > > > >
> > > > > For this question, I have sent a mail about it.(2015-03-04) After
> > > > > finishing L1 guest VM installation, we need to change L1 guest boot
> > > > > sequence from ISO image to hard disk, we need modify the "boot=cd" ,
> > > >
> > > > Do you? As Ian asked before, why is guest_editconfig_nocd  not
> > > > sufficient? It removes the CD from the virtual drive, meaning that
> > > > "boot=dc" will fail to boot from d and fallthru to c.
> > > >
> > > > >  also need to enable 'nestedhvm' feature in hvm configure file,
> > > >
> > > > This certainly doesn't belong in a function called
> > > > guest_editconfig_cd, since it has nothing to do with cds at all.
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, it's not clear why you need to edit this into the nestedhvm
> > > > configuration, instead of adding it when the configuration is created
> > > > via more_prepareguest_hvm. What harm is there in enabling this during
> > > > guest install?
> > > >
> > > I will try it.
> > > 
> > Re-use 'guest_ediconfig_nocd', after finishing L1 installation, it
> > could boot into L1 OS, but failed to install packages( such as lvm2,
> > rsync, bridge-utils ....) via Debian repo in L1, as below msg:
> 
> Oh dear. Things really ought to be tailored on install to use the
> network repositories for the apt sources, not the cdrom.

When I wrote ts-debian-hvm-install, one of the problems (if I remember
correctly) was that our network infrastructure didn't support booting
EFI from PXE boot. I ended up making that disk image to sort of work
around this.

> 
> Installing from netboot rather than netinst media ought to achieve that,
> I'm not sure with ts-debian-hvm-install uses though or how to achieve it
> via preseeding if it isn't the default for the given media.
> 

Per  https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/example-preseed.txt,
these runes look interesting.

# Additional repositories, local[0-9] available
#d-i apt-setup/local0/repository string \
#       http://local.server/debian stable main
#d-i apt-setup/local0/comment string local server
# Enable deb-src lines
#d-i apt-setup/local0/source boolean true
# URL to the public key of the local repository; you must provide a key
# or
# apt will complain about the unauthenticated repository and so the
# sources.list line will be left commented out
#d-i apt-setup/local0/key string http://local.server/key

Not sure if they will really end up in source.list though.

Wei.

> What does /etc/apt/sources.list contain for your installed L1 guest?
> Does it contain both cdrom and http entries?
> 
> Ian.