Re: [libvirt] [PATCH tck 0/6] Fix tests which need a full OS image

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 ?