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