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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 03:16:37PM +0100, 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.

So if lack of virt-builder is a significant problem for you, then one
option is for us to directly download the disk images from

  http://libguestfs.org/download/builder/

and then just run virt-sysprep on it ourselves. We don't actually
need much of the fancy code virt-builder has, so it wouldn't be too
much work to do it.

How much longer do you expect to be needing to support running on
Wheezy ? Are we talking years, or just months ?

Regards,
Daniel
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