On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:12:42PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > Hi Daniel, > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 02:48:41PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 03:16:37PM +0100, 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. > > > > So if lack of virt-builder is a significant problem for you, then one > > option is for us to directly download the disk images from > > > > http://libguestfs.org/download/builder/ > > > > and then just run virt-sysprep on it ourselves. We don't actually > > need much of the fancy code virt-builder has, so it wouldn't be too > > much work to do it. > > > > How much longer do you expect to be needing to support running on > > Wheezy ? Are we talking years, or just months ? > > I aim to support testing on wheezy until it goes EOL which will be > years rather than months. However updating the machine the tests are run > _from_ to a newer version that has a recent guestfs will be easy. I'll > just have to check how well running libvirt-tck against remote URIs is > supported. I've disabled updating libvirt-tck for now: > > http://honk.sigxcpu.org:8001/view/libvirt/job/libvirt-tck-build/ > > so no worries merging your changes. FYI I've never tried to run TCK remotely. We do create alot of files on the local disk, but I guess if you put an NFS volume at the right location then this would probably just work ok. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list