Hi Daniel, On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 02:48:41PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
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 ?
I aim to support testing on wheezy until it goes EOL which will be years rather than months. However updating the machine the tests are run _from_ to a newer version that has a recent guestfs will be easy. I'll just have to check how well running libvirt-tck against remote URIs is supported. I've disabled updating libvirt-tck for now: http://honk.sigxcpu.org:8001/view/libvirt/job/libvirt-tck-build/ so no worries merging your changes. Cheers, -- Guido