Hello Team, I managed to run autopkgtest through ssh to a Virtualbox VM.
Steps: Set up an minimal VM by selecting ssh server from debian installer with user testbed and password xxxxxx where testbed is capable to sudo. Copy your local ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to /home/testbed/.ssh/authorizes_keys on the VM. You should now be able to ssh into the VM, details depend on your virtual network configuration. In my enviroment a simple 'ssh sid' does the job. By testing this your local enviroment learns the VM's host key. A this point you may want to take a snapshot of the VM to rollback to after a test. You then can run autopkgtest by: autopkgtest arno-iptables-firewall_2.0.3-1_amd64.changes -- ssh --capability=isolation-machine --capability=root-on-testbed -P xxxxxx -H sid As Aleksey mentioned in his latest post running the test blocks the VM's ssh port in the end. Fortunately the firewall does not block already established connections, so the test performs flawlessy. After each autopkgtest the testbed needs to be restored, by rolling back the VM to the snapshot you took before, or by executing 'sudo dpkg --purge arno-iptables-firewall' on the VM's console. Best, Sven
