Re: [libvirt] [PATCH tck 0/6] Fix tests which need a full OS image

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.