[libvirt] [TCK] [PATCH] Switch to installation of FC14 image and other fixes

[Stefan Berger]

On 05/09/2011 05:26 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 10:39:52AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
>> This patch fixes the creation of VM images. Previously, FC12 images were
>> created but the files necessary for FC12 image creation are no longer
>> available in the public repositories. This patch now switches it to
>> create FC14 images. To get such a new image one may want to remove all
>> content in /var/cache/libvirt-tck. I takes a long time for the image to
>> install, though.
> We can probably do a little refactoring to use the libguestfs
> appliance image soon, which will make things simpler...

You say 'soon' -- is it not possible to do, yet ?

>> The new FC14 image takes a lot longer to boot. Rather than waiting a
>> fixed timeout during which the VM presumably has booted it is now
>> waiting for the VM to become pingable and then starts the actual tests.
> ...and libguestfs can boot in a couple of seconds.
I looked at the contents of the .img files with libguestfs-1.8.6-1. I am 
missing an ssh daemon. Is that one supposed to be installed upon the 
first image start? Also, how does one use libguestfs to create a 
bootable image?

  Thanks.

     Stefan