Re: [PATCH 0/1] tests/acceptance/boot_linux: Switch to Fedora 32

[Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On 1/26/21 10:09 PM, Daniele Buono wrote:
> Local acceptance tests run with "make check-acceptance" are now
> showing some cases canceled like the following:
>
> (01/39) tests/acceptance/boot_linux.py:BootLinuxX8664.test_pc_i440fx_tcg: CANCEL: Failed to download/prepare boot image (0.25 s)
>
> Turns out, every full-vm test in boot_linux.py is trying to use a
> Fedora 31 cloud image and is failing, with Avocado refusing to download
> it, presumably because Fedora 31 is EOL.
>
> This patch moves to Fedora 32, which is still supported. And seem to
> work fine

While ago it was discussed about updating the Fedora version which, in 
my opinion, ended up without a conclusion. Please see the complete 
thread in:

https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg763986.html

I'm CC'ing Daniel Berrrangé so that, perhaps, we could resume the 
discussion.

Thanks!

- Wainer

>
> The script has the image checksums hardcoded. I downloaded and verified
> the checksums with the Fedora 32 GPG key, but I would feel more
> confident if someone else wants to verify it too.
>
> The checksum files are here:
> https://download-ib01.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/32/Cloud/ppc64le/images/Fedora-Cloud-32-1.6-ppc64le-CHECKSUM
> https://download-ib01.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/32/Cloud/s390x/images/Fedora-Cloud-32-1.6-s390x-CHECKSUM
> https://download-ib01.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/32/Cloud/aarch64/images/Fedora-Cloud-32-1.6-aarch64-CHECKSUM
> https://download-ib01.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/32/Cloud/x86_64/images/Fedora-Cloud-32-1.6-x86_64-CHECKSUM
> and the GPG keys are available here:
> https://getfedora.org/en/security/
>
> NOTE: I tried moving to Fedora 33, but the aarch64 VM cannot boot
> properly. May be worth investigating but I have no experience with ARM
> so I'll leave that to someone else, if interested.
>
> Daniele Buono (1):
>    tests/acceptance/boot_linux: Switch to Fedora 32
>
>   tests/acceptance/boot_linux.py | 11 +++++------
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>