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@ 2016-05-26 14:27 Alex Bennée
  2016-05-26 14:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/2] tests/docker/docker.py: support --qemu option Alex Bennée
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From: Alex Bennée @ 2016-05-26 14:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel
  Cc: famz, peter.maydell, neil.williams, steve.mcintyre, riku.voipio,
	Alex Bennée

Hi,

I had a an set of scripts for setting up and running executable
binaries in a $arch-linux-user powered rootfs. However it has been a
while since I last used them and there was various breakage which
spurred me on to a better way. As Fam has been working with Docker
containers for building I investigated if we could use the docker
framework to make all the chroot/bind mount stuff go away.

A couple of caveats as befits an RFC:

  - built on top of Fam's docker series [PATCH v5 00/14] tests: Introducing docker tests
  - assumes binfmt_misc setup an set to /usr/bin/qemu-FOO
  - uses ldd to copy dynamically shared libs across
    - this should be OK for distro's that are multiarch safe

For example to build a Debian Testing armhf distro I run:

  DEB_ARCH=armhf DEB_TYPE=testing \
    ./tests/docker/docker.py build --qemu=qemu-arm debian:armhf \
    ./tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-bootstrap.docker

This uses Fam's docker helper which now copies qemu-arm into the
docker build context, loads the debian-bootstrap.docker evaluating
HOST_CMD (to do the debootstrap) and then runs the build steps to make
the image. I can then run the final image with something like:

$ docker run -t -i --rm debian:armhf /bin/bash
root@e659ddf8232c:/# uname -a
Linux e659ddf8232c 4.4.0-21-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 18 18:33:37
UTC 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux

Obviously this requires Fam's stuff to go in and needs some clean-up
but is this worth pursuing?

Cheers,


Alex Bennée (2):
  tests/docker/docker.py: support --qemu option
  add debian-bootstrap.docker target

 tests/docker/docker.py                           | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++---
 tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-bootstrap.docker | 22 +++++++
 2 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-bootstrap.docker

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2.7.4

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2016-05-27 11:28   ` Fam Zheng
2016-05-31 15:23     ` Alex Bennée
2016-06-01  3:00       ` Fam Zheng
2016-05-26 14:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/2] add debian-bootstrap.docker target Alex Bennée
2016-05-27 12:23   ` Fam Zheng
2016-05-31 15:27     ` Alex Bennée
2016-06-01  1:47       ` Fam Zheng
2016-06-01  4:27       ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] docker: Support ".pre" script when building image Fam Zheng
2016-05-27 12:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Support building qemu-user powered docker test images Fam Zheng

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