From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: "Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
Cc: "Fam Zheng" <fam@euphon.net>, "Ed Maste" <emaste@freebsd.org>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Kamil Rytarowski" <kamil@netbsd.org>,
"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
"Li-Wen Hsu" <lwhsu@freebsd.org>,
"Brad Smith" <brad@comstyle.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 10/13] tests/vm: freebsd autoinstall, using serial console
Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 09:14:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84415abd-3066-90db-e10d-51f756aa6767@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190520052615.ty2bpmxdoajjqvk6@sirius.home.kraxel.org>
On 20/05/2019 07.26, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 12:55:09AM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> Hi Gerd,
>>
>> On 5/10/19 12:46 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>> Instead of fetching the prebuilt image from patchew download the install
>>> iso and prepare the image locally. Install to disk, using the serial
>>> console. Create qemu user, configure ssh login. Install packages
>>> needed for qemu builds.
>>
>> I'm impressed how charmly this works :)
>>
>> 3 comments so far.
>>
>> 1/ We could record (in tests/vm/freebsd header?) roughly how many local
>> storage will be used (or display in 'make vm-help'?). FYI this image
>> takes ~3.1GiB.
>
> vm-help would be more useful I think.
>
>> 2/ "Autoboot in 9 seconds, hit [Enter] to boot or any other key to stop"
>
> Probably tweakable via loader.conf, I'll check.
>
>> 3/ I am a bit annoyed it overwrote my previous
>> ~/.cache/qemu-vm/images/freebsd.img VM. Not sure what's the best hash to
>> use, maybe "git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%H -- tests/vm/freebsd"?
>> (Similarly for other images).
>
> Then use ~/.cache/qemu-vm/images/freebsd-${hash}.img ?
>
> Which will fill ~/.cache/qemu-vm/images with stale images over time,
> which isn't great either ...
>
> Or do you have something else in mind?
I'd vote to keep the current approach to overwrite "freebsd.img". It's a
"cache" directory - if you want to have something persisten, Philippe, I
think you should simply copy your image to a different location instead.
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-20 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-10 10:46 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/13] tests/vm: serial console autoinstall, misc fixes Gerd Hoffmann
2019-05-10 10:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 01/13] scripts: use git archive in archive-source Gerd Hoffmann
2019-05-10 10:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 02/13] tests/vm: send proxy environment variables over ssh Gerd Hoffmann
2019-05-18 22:15 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-05-10 10:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 03/13] tests/vm: use ssh with pty unconditionally Gerd Hoffmann
2019-05-10 10:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 04/13] tests/vm: run test builds on snapshot Gerd Hoffmann
2019-05-10 10:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 05/13] tests/vm: proper guest shutdown Gerd Hoffmann
2019-05-10 10:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 06/13] tests/vm: add vm-boot-{ssh, serial}-<guest> targets Gerd Hoffmann
2019-05-10 10:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 07/13] tests/vm: add DEBUG=1 to help text Gerd Hoffmann
2019-05-18 22:23 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-05-10 10:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 08/13] tests/vm: serial console support helpers Gerd Hoffmann
2019-05-10 10:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 09/13] tests/vm: openbsd autoinstall, using serial console Gerd Hoffmann
2019-05-10 10:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 10/13] tests/vm: freebsd " Gerd Hoffmann
2019-05-18 22:55 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-05-20 5:26 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-05-20 7:14 ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2019-05-20 11:24 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-05-20 12:18 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-05-10 10:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 11/13] tests/vm: netbsd " Gerd Hoffmann
2019-05-16 5:16 ` Kamil Rytarowski
2019-05-10 10:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 12/13] tests/vm: fedora " Gerd Hoffmann
2019-05-10 10:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 13/13] tests/vm: ubuntu.i386: apt proxy setup Gerd Hoffmann
2019-05-18 22:18 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-05-17 1:04 ` [Qemu-devel] QEMU on OpenBSD is broken? (was: Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] tests/vm: serial console autoinstall, misc fixes.) Thomas Huth
2019-05-18 21:27 ` [Qemu-devel] QEMU on OpenBSD is broken? Jim Payne
2019-05-19 4:27 ` Brad Smith
2019-05-20 7:54 ` Gerd Hoffmann
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