On Tue, 09 Jan 2024 11:41:09 +0100 Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:
[...]
> So... mmdebstrap-autopkgtest-build-qemu might be what you want *if* you
> don't care about ppc64el or mips. The latter was (I think) never
> supported my autopkgtest-qemu because there is no good option for a
>
Hi Francesco,
On 2023-12-28 15:47, Francesco Poli wrote:
I stayed tuned and I saw that mmdebstrap/1.4.0-1 ships a
mmdebstrap-autopkgtest-build-qemu that does not require superuser
privileges (according to its man page).
Do I understand correctly that this new script is one of the building
On Tue, 31 Oct 2023 11:25:43 +0100 Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:20:15 +0200 Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
> wrote:
>
> [...]
> > Quoting Francesco Poli (2023-06-26 20:20:47)
> > > If I may share my thoughts (daydreams?!?) about this issue, I was hoping
> > > to
> > > see a
On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:20:15 +0200 Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
wrote:
[...]
> Quoting Francesco Poli (2023-06-26 20:20:47)
> > If I may share my thoughts (daydreams?!?) about this issue, I was hoping to
> > see a (relatively) simple command able to create a QEMU/KVM image for
> > autopkgtest
On 2023-06-27 00:15, Christian Kastner wrote:
> I just have one question about debvm though (hence Helmut in CC), which
> is beyond my depth: is that kernel direct boot something akin to EFI, or
> BIOS, or of its own kind?
>
> As I've managed to land on a use case where EFI boot seems to be
On 2023-06-26 21:20, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:
> this is not a daydream and I think we have nearly all building blocks in place
> to make all of this happen very soon! Here is a summary:
>
> 1. You use `debvm-create --arch $foo` to create a filesystem image for any
>
Hi,
Quoting Francesco Poli (2023-06-26 20:20:47)
> If I may share my thoughts (daydreams?!?) about this issue, I was hoping to
> see a (relatively) simple command able to create a QEMU/KVM image for
> autopkgtest without requiring superuser privileges. An image that could be
> easily upgraded
On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 08:33:09 +0200 Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:
> Francesco, you initially reported this issue. Do you share my conclusion that
> debvm solves the problem you raised about creating autopktest disk images
> without superuser privileges?
>
> Thanks!
Hi Johannes,
thanks
Hi Simon,
if you are short on time, you might skip right to the end of this mail and
ignore my other comments as they are not of any high priority since at least
for me, this issue is solved with somehow integrating debvm or adding an
interface that allows using debvm output with autopkgtest.
On Sun, 05 Jun 2022 at 17:04:02 +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:
> I am offering to either rewrite autopkgtest-build-qemu with a --method option
> defaulting either to "guestfish" if a native image is requested, "initramfs"
> if
> a foreign architecture is requested and "kernel" if
Hi,
Quoting Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues (2022-05-12 22:16:16)
> On Fri, 08 Nov 2019 23:59:48 +0100 "Francesco Poli (wintermute)"
> wrote:
> > 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
Hi Francesco,
On Fri, 08 Nov 2019 23:59:48 +0100 "Francesco Poli (wintermute)"
wrote:
> 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:
>
> [...]
> |
On Fri, 08 Nov 2019 at 23:59:48 +0100, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote:
> Its man page states:
> | Note that you need to call this as root.
>
> I guess this is because of vmdb2, which requires superuser privileges.
As a stopgap solution for this, the latest version in git will try to use
On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 at 17:36:39 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Francesco Poli (wintermute) [2019-11-08 23:59 +0100]:
> > Is there any hope to improve vmdb2 or to use another tool, in order
> > to create a KVM testbed without requiring superuser privileges?
>
> A much better approach to this would be
Hello Francesco,
Francesco Poli (wintermute) [2019-11-08 23:59 +0100]:
> 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
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On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 11:59:48PM +0100, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote:
> 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
>
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.
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