On Fri, 09/15 11:47, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > why not generate 1 key in > tests/vm/ (or clever ~/.cache/qemu-vm/ already used by those scripts) once > when the make vm-test rule is called, that would be 1 key per repository > clone (or 1 per user using ~/.cache).
Like I explained elsewhere, the BSD images must be generated after the keys in order for the pub key to be added to the guest authorized_keys. And there is no automatic way to do so. That's why the keys are committed to the repo, not generated (otherwise we'd just use ~/.ssh pub keys). Fam