On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 01:01:40PM +0100, Michal Suchánek wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 12:37:53PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > > On 2/24/21 12:06 PM, Michal Suchánek wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 10:29:15AM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > > >> Just to inform the files hosted on github don't work when > > >> testing from China: > > > > > >> > > >> raw.githubusercontent.com resolves to 127.0.0.1 > > > > Actually not even localhost but 0.0.0.0 :) > > > > > And from where does this come from? > > > > > > Your local system, your ISP, ... ? > > > > Probably the ISP: > > > ... > > > > I raised that problem not to find a way to bypass an ISP > > firewall, but to see if there is a way to use another > > storage for test artifacts so all the community can run > > the tests. > > I don't think protecting from random network malfunction is something > the qemu project can do. > > That said, downloading the test data during test run does indeed look > fragile. > > We have the concept of git submodules which is used in qemu extensively > so the test data could possibly be included directly in the git tree. > > The obvious downside is that the current and past test binaries will take > up disk space for all users that check out the repository, even those > that don't run the tests.
We explicitly do not want to be distributing / including the images ourselves, as that makes the QEMU project responsible for license compliance and thus provision of full & corresponding source. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
