retitle 719215 please create a QEMU virtualization server thanks Hello Francesco,
Francesco Poli (wintermute) [2013-08-09 12:26 +0200]: > I think that it would be useful to have a binary package to > set up a KVM-based virtualized environment for tests. > That is to say, something similar to autopkgtest-xenlvm, > but based on KVM in stead of Xen, if I understand correcly. It should be called adt-virt-qemu, as it doesn't really require KVM; with Qemu you could e. g. create an ARM VM and run it on x86 with qemu-system, so we need to make the adt-virt-qemu flexible enough to allow that. As qemu/qemu-image already support snapshotting, there is little point in adding the overhead of LVM, so I drop that part of your feature request. I took the liberty to retitle the report accordingly. > It seems to me that there's something for Ubuntu using KVM: > https://launchpad.net/auto-package-testing Indeed, that are our initial scripts to wrap adt-run and virt-null in KVM. This has some shortcomings however: It's quite a lot of extra code, requires autopkgtest to be installed *in* the VM, and most importantly does not support "revert" (snapshotting), so it cannot run multiple "breaks-testbed" tests. It would indeed be better to create a proper qemu runner and then dramatically simplify the auto-package-testing scripts. We can take a lot of knowledge from these scripts, as they already figured out how to set up and control ephemeral VMs in a robust and efficient manner. We must get along with fewer assumptions about the nature of the VM though. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)
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