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From: | Philippe Mathieu-Daudé |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/14] tests/vm: serial console autoinstall, misc fixes. |
Date: | Thu, 30 May 2019 12:02:00 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 |
On 5/30/19 11:33 AM, Alex Bennée wrote: > > 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. Is this the same issue I described there? https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-05/msg06784.html
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