Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/14] tests/vm: serial console autoinstall, misc fixes.

[Alex Bennée]

Alex Bennée <address@hidden> writes:

> Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> This patch series changes the way virtual machines for test builds are
>> managed.  They are created locally on the developer machine now.  The
>> installer is booted on the serial console and the scripts walks through
>> the dialogs to install and configure the guest.
>>
>> That takes the download.patchew.org server out of the loop and makes it
>> alot easier to tweak the guest images (adding build dependencies for
>> example).
>>
>> The install scripts take care to apply host proxy settings (from *_proxy
>> environment variables) to the guest, so any package downloads will be
>> routed through the proxy and can be cached that way.  This also makes
>> them work behind strict firewalls.
>>
>> There are also a bunch of smaller tweaks for tests/vm to fix issues I
>> was struggling with.  See commit messages of individual patches for
>> details.
>
> Queued to testing/next, thanks.
>
> One of the machines I'm testing on seems to have problems with getting
> the installer working over the serial link but it works on my main dev
> box and others have it working as well so I suspect it might be a local
> problem.
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OK I had to drop this series due to persistent problems with the serial
link on one of the boxes Peter uses to do his merge testing. Some of it
seems to be QEMU specific (Ubuntu 18.04 system qemu just hangs) but I
suspect there is also an issue with BSDs and our serial emulation
generally.

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Alex Bennée