[libvirt] [PATCH tck 0/6] Fix tests which need a full OS image

[Mike Latimer]

On Friday, March 28, 2014 03:16:37 PM Guido Günther wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:26:26PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > A bunch of tests currently attempt to kickstart a full Fedora
> > OS image install. Everytime I try to update this kickstart to
> > a new version of Fedora it causes no end of pain. Switch the
> > tests over to use Richard Jones' virt-builder command which
> > is part of libguestfs. This makes it trivial to deploy and
> > customize full OS images from pre-built templates.
> > 
> > Mike - does Suse include a new enough version of libguestfs
> > to get access to the 'virt-builder' tool yet ?
> 
> Just as a data point: I'm running on Debian Wheezy via Jenkins on a
> regular basis (i.e. on libvirt commit). Wheezy has 1.18.1 which isn't
> recent enough. I also ran into kickstart hazzles several times but
> keeping the entry barrier low to use libvirt-tck might be more
> important.

I'm also running this through Jenkins on libvirt commits. I'm currently 
running against SLES11 SP3, SLES12 (beta), and openSUSE 13.1. In the case of 
SLES11, I don't have guestfs at all, so this change will be a problem there. 
On the other hand, the move to virt-builder is likely worth it.

In my case, I will likely just create a local fork of libvirt-tck before this 
commit that I use specifically for SLES11 testing. Another option is to 
continue to use pre-built images (although I'd have to hide the libguestfs 
requirement).

-Mike