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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/9] tests: Add VM based build tests
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To: Kamil Rytarowski <n54@gmx.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, berrange@redhat.com, Alex =?iso-8859-1?Q?Benn=E9e?= <alex.bennee@linaro.org>, Philippe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mathieu-Daud=E9?= <f4bug@amsat.org>, stefanha@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Kamil Rytarowski <kamil@netbsd.org>

On Wed, 08/16 11:24, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> On 16.08.2017 09:20, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > Build tests in one 32 bit Linux guest and three BSD images are defined in this
> > series. This is a more managable way than the manually maintained virtual
> > machines in patchew. Also, one big advantage of ephemeral VMs over long running
> > guests is the reduced RAM usage of host, which makes it possible to have one
> > host test all these BSD variants and probably more.
> > 
> 
> Thank you for your work on this!
> 
> > The BSD guest templates are manually prepared following
> > 
> > https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/BSD
> > 
> > as it is not easy to automate. (The ideal approach is like the ubuntu.i386
> > script, which configures the guest on top of an official released image, fully
> > automatically.)
> > 
> 
> For the reference, inside the NetBSD infrastructure we use homegrown Anita:
> 
> http://pkgsrc.se/misc/py-anita

Looks cool. Is it suitable for using to implement tests/vm/netbsd? Is there a
user documentation?

Fam