On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 08:33:09 +0200 Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Francesco, you initially reported this issue. Do you share my conclusion that > debvm solves the problem you raised about creating autopktest disk images > without superuser privileges? > > Thanks!
Hi Johannes, thanks for following up on this bug report! I really appreciate all the investigation and development work done by you and others, but I must confess that I somewhat lost track of all the details. :-p If I may share my thoughts (daydreams?!?) about this issue, I was hoping to see a (relatively) simple command able to create a QEMU/KVM image for autopkgtest without requiring superuser privileges. An image that could be easily upgraded after creation (without the need to re-create it from scratch). Bonus, if the image can then be used also for interactive testing of packages and for package building. Basically, I was hoping to see [sbuild-qemu-create] drop the requirement of superuser privileges (thus dropping the behind-the-scenes use of vmdb2 and switching to some other backend)... [sbuild-qemu-create]: <https://anarc.at/blog/2022-04-27-sbuild-qemu/> I am not sure I clearly understand whether this may happen or whether this is actually going to happen soon... -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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