Package: autopkgtest Version: 5.11 Severity: wishlist Hello and thanks for maintaining autopkgtest!
I wanted to give the QEMU/KVM testbed a try. Hence I tried to create a VM image by using autopkgtest-build-qemu. Its man page states: [...] | Note that you need to call this as root. [...] And indeed the command $ autopkgtest-build-qemu unstable ~/var/cache/autopkgtest/sid.img fails, when issued by a regular user, as it cannot even find parted in the search PATH. I guess this is because of vmdb2, which requires superuser privileges. But why? Is there any hope to improve vmdb2 or to use another tool, in order to create a KVM testbed without requiring superuser privileges? -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages autopkgtest depends on: ii apt-utils 1.8.4 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.7 ii procps 2:3.3.15-2+b1 ii python3 3.7.5-1 ii python3-debian 0.1.36 Versions of packages autopkgtest recommends: ii autodep8 0.19 Versions of packages autopkgtest suggests: pn lxc <none> pn lxd <none> ii ovmf 0~20190828.37eef910-3 ii qemu-efi-aarch64 0~20190828.37eef910-3 ii qemu-efi-arm 0~20190828.37eef910-3 ii qemu-system 1:4.1-1+b4 ii qemu-utils 1:4.1-1+b4 pn schroot <none> ii vmdb2 0.13.2+git20190215-1 -- no debconf information
