Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/9] tests: Add VM based build tests (for non-x86_64 and/or non-Linux)

[Fam Zheng]

On Wed, 08/16 11:24, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> On 16.08.2017 09:20, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > Build tests in one 32 bit Linux guest and three BSD images are defined in 
> > this
> > series. This is a more managable way than the manually maintained virtual
> > machines in patchew. Also, one big advantage of ephemeral VMs over long 
> > running
> > guests is the reduced RAM usage of host, which makes it possible to have one
> > host test all these BSD variants and probably more.
> > 
> 
> Thank you for your work on this!
> 
> > The BSD guest templates are manually prepared following
> > 
> > https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/BSD
> > 
> > as it is not easy to automate. (The ideal approach is like the ubuntu.i386
> > script, which configures the guest on top of an official released image, 
> > fully
> > automatically.)
> > 
> 
> For the reference, inside the NetBSD infrastructure we use homegrown Anita:
> 
> http://pkgsrc.se/misc/py-anita

Looks cool. Is it suitable for using to implement tests/vm/netbsd? Is there a
user documentation?

Fam