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To: Philippe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mathieu-Daud=E9?= <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 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Benn=E9e?= <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

On Thu, 08/31 12:59, Philippe Mathieu-Daud=E9 wrote:
> Hi Fam,
>=20
> On 08/31/2017 03:42 AM, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > This is the common code to implement a "VM test" to
> >=20
> >    1) Download and initialize a pre-defined VM that has necessary
> >    dependencies to build QEMU and SSH access.
>=20
> Looking at this project:
>=20
> https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/qemu.html
>=20
> Maybe we can have another CI that prepare/upload those images (reproduc=
ible,
> easy upgrade version...), and document the build process in the JSON in=
stead
> of the wiki (so the doc is up to date).

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

Fam