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

[Kamil Rytarowski]

On 16.08.2017 12:13, Fam Zheng wrote:
> 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
> 

Documentation:

http://www.gson.org/netbsd/anita/

I'm not sure if it is suitable. It was designed with a different goal -
to verify the process of installation and execution of ATF (regress)
tests. The process of clean installation of NetBSD for every patch is
overkill... however this might be a source of inspiration. (I've not
been digging into the source code).

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