On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 08:55:05AM -0600, Mike Latimer wrote: > On Friday, March 28, 2014 03:16:37 PM Guido Günther wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:26:26PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > A bunch of tests currently attempt to kickstart a full Fedora > > > OS image install. Everytime I try to update this kickstart to > > > a new version of Fedora it causes no end of pain. Switch the > > > tests over to use Richard Jones' virt-builder command which > > > is part of libguestfs. This makes it trivial to deploy and > > > customize full OS images from pre-built templates. > > > > > > Mike - does Suse include a new enough version of libguestfs > > > to get access to the 'virt-builder' tool yet ? > > > > Just as a data point: I'm running on Debian Wheezy via Jenkins on a > > regular basis (i.e. on libvirt commit). Wheezy has 1.18.1 which isn't > > recent enough. I also ran into kickstart hazzles several times but > > keeping the entry barrier low to use libvirt-tck might be more > > important. > > I'm also running this through Jenkins on libvirt commits. I'm currently > running against SLES11 SP3, SLES12 (beta), and openSUSE 13.1. In the case of > SLES11, I don't have guestfs at all, so this change will be a problem there. > On the other hand, the move to virt-builder is likely worth it. > > In my case, I will likely just create a local fork of libvirt-tck before this > commit that I use specifically for SLES11 testing. Another option is to > continue to use pre-built images (although I'd have to hide the libguestfs > requirement). libguestfs exists on SUSE. Olaf Hering is packaging it. Not sure about SLES, but I was under the impression it was packaged for at least some version of SLES. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list