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.