Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 10/13] tests/vm: freebsd autoinstall, using serial console

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 12:55:09AM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi Gerd,
> 
> On 5/10/19 12:46 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > Instead of fetching the prebuilt image from patchew download the install
> > iso and prepare the image locally.  Install to disk, using the serial
> > console.  Create qemu user, configure ssh login.  Install packages
> > needed for qemu builds.
> 
> I'm impressed how charmly this works :)
> 
> 3 comments so far.
> 
> 1/ We could record (in tests/vm/freebsd header?) roughly how many local
> storage will be used (or display in 'make vm-help'?). FYI this image
> takes ~3.1GiB.

vm-help would be more useful I think.

> 2/ "Autoboot in 9 seconds, hit [Enter] to boot or any other key to stop"

Probably tweakable via loader.conf, I'll check.

> 3/ I am a bit annoyed it overwrote my previous
> ~/.cache/qemu-vm/images/freebsd.img VM. Not sure what's the best hash to
> use, maybe "git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%H -- tests/vm/freebsd"?
> (Similarly for other images).

Then use ~/.cache/qemu-vm/images/freebsd-${hash}.img ?

Which will fill ~/.cache/qemu-vm/images with stale images over time,
which isn't great either ...

Or do you have something else in mind?

cheers,
  Gerd