Re: [libvirt] [TCK] [PATCH] Switch to installation of FC14 image and other fixes
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 04:49:48PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
On 05/09/2011 05:26 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 10:39:52AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
>>This patch fixes the creation of VM images. Previously, FC12 images were
>>created but the files necessary for FC12 image creation are no longer
>>available in the public repositories. This patch now switches it to
>>create FC14 images. To get such a new image one may want to remove all
>>content in /var/cache/libvirt-tck. I takes a long time for the image to
>>install, though.
>We can probably do a little refactoring to use the libguestfs
>appliance image soon, which will make things simpler...
You say 'soon' -- is it not possible to do, yet ?
>>The new FC14 image takes a lot longer to boot. Rather than waiting a
>>fixed timeout during which the VM presumably has booted it is now
>>waiting for the VM to become pingable and then starts the actual tests.
>...and libguestfs can boot in a couple of seconds.
I looked at the contents of the .img files with libguestfs-1.8.6-1.
I am missing an ssh daemon. Is that one supposed to be installed
upon the first image start?
There isn't an ssh daemon in the standard libguestfs appliance -- it's
not needed.
You might want to just use febootstrap directly. It's really very
practical and easy to build a custom image, and doing it this way
means you're not depending on the internals of libguestfs.
febootstrap 3.x also has the advantage that it works on Debian/Ubuntu
too (building Debian/Ubuntu images). This is a good place to start:
http://libguestfs.org/febootstrap.8.html
and then have a look in the appliance/ directory in libguestfs source.
Rich.
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