Re: [libvirt] [TCK] [PATCH] Switch to installation of FC14 image and other fixes

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? Also, how does one use libguestfs to create a bootable image?