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 ?
Regards,
Daniel
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