Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 10/13] tests/vm: freebsd autoinstall, using serial console

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>]

On 5/20/19 9:14 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 20/05/2019 07.26, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 12:55:09AM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>> Hi Gerd,
>>>
>>> On 5/10/19 12:46 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>>> Instead of fetching the prebuilt image from patchew download the install
>>>> iso and prepare the image locally.  Install to disk, using the serial
>>>> console.  Create qemu user, configure ssh login.  Install packages
>>>> needed for qemu builds.
>>>
>>> I'm impressed how charmly this works :)
>>>
>>> 3 comments so far.
>>>
>>> 1/ We could record (in tests/vm/freebsd header?) roughly how many local
>>> storage will be used (or display in 'make vm-help'?). FYI this image
>>> takes ~3.1GiB.
>>
>> vm-help would be more useful I think.
>>
>>> 2/ "Autoboot in 9 seconds, hit [Enter] to boot or any other key to stop"
>>
>> Probably tweakable via loader.conf, I'll check.
>>
>>> 3/ I am a bit annoyed it overwrote my previous
>>> ~/.cache/qemu-vm/images/freebsd.img VM. Not sure what's the best hash to
>>> use, maybe "git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%H -- tests/vm/freebsd"?
>>> (Similarly for other images).
>>
>> Then use ~/.cache/qemu-vm/images/freebsd-${hash}.img ?
>>
>> Which will fill ~/.cache/qemu-vm/images with stale images over time,
>> which isn't great either ...
>>
>> Or do you have something else in mind?

Maybe we can simply use a ${VM_IMG_VERSION} and manually increase it
when there are significant changes.

We could add a "make vm-clean-cache-older-than-%" parsing the
"20days/3months/2y" formats?

> I'd vote to keep the current approach to overwrite "freebsd.img". It's a
> "cache" directory - if you want to have something persisten, Philippe, I
> think you should simply copy your image to a different location instead.

My concern came when thinking about bisecting:

$ git log --oneline \
  $(git log --pretty=format:%H \
    --diff-filter=A -- tests/vm/freebsd)..origin/master | wc -l
13016

But then I only used "make check-vm" while bisecting twice, so I can
stop worrying about testing old VMs.

Regards,

Phil.