On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 08:30:15 +0100 Martin Pitt wrote: > retitle 719215 please create a QEMU virtualization server > thanks > > Hello Francesco,
Hello Martin, thanks for your reply. > > 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. Fair enough. It should be equally easy to use KVM behind QEMU, whenever possible (same architecture for the host and guest system, KVM virtualization support, ...), though. I suppose you were implicitly saying this. > > 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. That's absolutely fine with me. > > > 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. It looks like a plan. ;-) Is it going to happen soonish? -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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