Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 04/12] tests: Add vm test lib

From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
To: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	"Kamil Rytarowski" <kamil@netbsd.org>,
	stefanha@redhat.com, "Cleber Rosa" <crosa@redhat.com>,
	pbonzini@redhat.com, "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 04/12] tests: Add vm test lib
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 16:39:38 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170901083938.GD4330@lemon.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e5d02327-dcfe-5af9-c036-bd238d1440e6@amsat.org>

On Thu, 08/31 12:59, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi Fam,
> 
> On 08/31/2017 03:42 AM, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > This is the common code to implement a "VM test" to
> > 
> >    1) Download and initialize a pre-defined VM that has necessary
> >    dependencies to build QEMU and SSH access.
> 
> Looking at this project:
> 
> https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/qemu.html
> 
> Maybe we can have another CI that prepare/upload those images (reproducible,
> easy upgrade version...), and document the build process in the JSON instead
> of the wiki (so the doc is up to date).

Thanks for the pointer, looks interesting. The json files can be committed to
QEMU if we go that way. Though I'm not very convinced by the "screen capture"
style automation that is used by the *BSD user recipes I've found with google.
It would be good if *BSD can have cloud-init or kickstart -alike automation,
with those we don't even need Packer.

Fam