Re: [OSSTEST Nested PATCH v10 6/9] Changes on test step of Debian hvm guest install

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 08:53 +0000, Pang, LongtaoX wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ian Campbell [mailto:ian.campbell@citrix.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 9:56 PM
> > To: Pang, LongtaoX
> > Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org; Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com; wei.liu2@citrix.com; Hu,
> > Robert
> > Subject: Re: [OSSTEST Nested PATCH v10 6/9] Changes on test step of Debian hvm
> > guest install
> > 
> > On Wed, 2015-05-13 at 11:36 +0800, longtao.pang wrote:
> > > @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \\
> > >                          use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ vfat } \\
> > >                          mountpoint{ /boot/efi } \\
> > >                  . \\
> > > -                5000 50 5000 ext4 \\
> > > +                10000 50 10000 ext4 \\
> > 
> > These three numbers are
> > 
> > <limits>::=<minimal size>_<priority>_<maximal size>_<parted fs>
> > 
> > (from
> > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/debian-installer.git/tree/doc/devel/partman-a
> > uto-recipe.txt)
> > 
> > So here you are increasing the minimum size of the root partition for
> > all debianhvm domains (including non-nested ones and L2 guests) from 5G
> > to 10G.
> > 
> > Did you test this with a normal L1 debianhvm guest (not one destined to
> > be an L1 host). i.e. using test-amd64-amd64-xl-qemuu-debianhvm-amd64 ?
> > 
> > The new size you have given is the same size as the entire disk in that
> > case. I'm not sure what will then happen...
> > 
> > Perhaps "5000 50 -1 ext4" does what you need, namely leaves the minimum
> > alone and sets the maximum to unlimited, which I think will end up
> > making this partition as big as the disk less the configured swap space.
> > 
> > Ian.
> I have ever used 'Debian-7.6.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso' as debianhvm_image which is 3.7G. 
> At that time, it's necessary to extend L1 guest's rootf size to '10000' to store the image.
> Currently, I use 'Debian-7.2.0-amd64-CD-1.iso' as debianhvm_image which is just 624M,
> the origin rootfs size of '5000' is sufficient to store this image and I have tried that it works fine for nested job.
> So, it's no need to extend guest's rootfs size anymore.

OK, great, that should simplify things in the series.

Ian.