Re: [libvirt] [jenkins-ci PATCH] guests: add more detailed docs on deploying FreeBSD

On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 11:09 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: [...] We should use MAJOR=12 MINOR=1 here so that people who are following instructions to the letter get the latest FreeBSD version. This is not necessary... ... if you change paths so that they are absolute here. The advantage of doing so is that you can tell people to run the two commands above under sudo (otherwise they'd have to run everything inside a root shell). This should be --memory 2048 to be consistent with our default for 'lcitool install'. This should be --os-variant freebsd$MAJOR.0 because the machine you're running this on might now have a recent enough osinfo-db version: my Fedora 31 installation with virt-preview enabled, for example, doesn't know about FreeBSD 12.1 yet. I had never encountered --file before, and seeing how it's apparently not documented I assume it's an old form for --disk. Please use --disk instead. [...] Please remove the specific size - it might change later. It's enough to say that they are too small. This should be 15G to be consistent with the default used by lcitool. You can leave out '-s ...' entirely, and gpart will do the right thing by changing the partition to use as much disk space as possible. I think dropping '-a 4k' would be safe too. As an additional tweak, this whole section about resizing the disk could go right after the one describing how to install the guest, but I don't really have a strong preference either way. -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization