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

[Kamil Rytarowski]

On 12.06.2019 19:35, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> 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.
> <snip>
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> Alex Bennée
> 

What version of NetBSD did you test? There was recently a short lived
regression in curses(3) that affected sysinst(8) (installer) in HEAD,
but it was fixed.

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