Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/14] tests/vm: serial console autoinstall, misc fixes.

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Kamil Rytarowski <n54@gmx.com> writes:

> On 12.06.2019 19:35, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>
>> Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> writes:
>>
>>> Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> This patch series changes the way virtual machines for test builds are
>>>> managed.  They are created locally on the developer machine now.  The
>>>> installer is booted on the serial console and the scripts walks through
>>>> the dialogs to install and configure the guest.
>>>>
>>>> That takes the download.patchew.org server out of the loop and makes it
>>>> alot easier to tweak the guest images (adding build dependencies for
>>>> example).
>>>>
>>>> The install scripts take care to apply host proxy settings (from *_proxy
>>>> environment variables) to the guest, so any package downloads will be
>>>> routed through the proxy and can be cached that way.  This also makes
>>>> them work behind strict firewalls.
>>>>
>>>> There are also a bunch of smaller tweaks for tests/vm to fix issues I
>>>> was struggling with.  See commit messages of individual patches for
>>>> details.
>>>
>>> Queued to testing/next, thanks.
>>>
>>> One of the machines I'm testing on seems to have problems with getting
>>> the installer working over the serial link but it works on my main dev
>>> box and others have it working as well so I suspect it might be a local
>>> problem.
>> <snip>
>>
>> OK I had to drop this series due to persistent problems with the serial
>> link on one of the boxes Peter uses to do his merge testing. Some of it
>> seems to be QEMU specific (Ubuntu 18.04 system qemu just hangs) but I
>> suspect there is also an issue with BSDs and our serial emulation
>> generally.
>>
>> --
>> Alex Bennée
>>
>
> What version of NetBSD did you test? There was recently a short lived
> regression in curses(3) that affected sysinst(8) (installer) in HEAD,
> but it was fixed.

The error for NetBSD was navigating the installer which was dumping a
lot of q's in the stream (unicode bar characters?). We were starting
with:

  link = "https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.0/images/NetBSD-8.0-amd64.iso"

--
Alex Bennée