Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/11] tests/vm: serial console autoinstall, misc fixes.

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

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.
>
> v4:
>  - rebase, drop patches merged.
>  - use in-tree seabios binary, for serial console support.
>  - some minor tweaks.
> v3:
>  - python3 fixes.
>  - openbsd: configure memory limits.
>  - freebsd: configure autoboot delay.
>
<snip>
>   tests/vm: openbsd autoinstall, using serial console
>   tests/vm: freebsd autoinstall, using serial console
>   tests/vm: netbsd autoinstall, using serial console
>   tests/vm: fedora autoinstall, using serial console

For reference there are some minor conflicts with Cleber's copy cleanups
currently in my testing/next. The easiest fix was to apply to a clean
origin/master and then rebase it so I could deal with the conflicts in
git.

Currently testing it out:

  https://github.com/stsquad/qemu/tree/review/test-vm-serial-v4

--
Alex Bennée