On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 12:55:09AM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi Gerd,
>
> On 5/10/19 12:46 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > Instead of fetching the prebuilt image from patchew download the install
> > iso and prepare the image locally. Install to disk, using the serial
> > console. Create qemu user, configure ssh login. Install packages
> > needed for qemu builds.
>
> I'm impressed how charmly this works :)
>
> 3 comments so far.
>
> 1/ We could record (in tests/vm/freebsd header?) roughly how many local
> storage will be used (or display in 'make vm-help'?). FYI this image
> takes ~3.1GiB.
vm-help would be more useful I think.
> 2/ "Autoboot in 9 seconds, hit [Enter] to boot or any other key to stop"
Probably tweakable via loader.conf, I'll check.
> 3/ I am a bit annoyed it overwrote my previous
> ~/.cache/qemu-vm/images/freebsd.img VM. Not sure what's the best hash to
> use, maybe "git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%H -- tests/vm/freebsd"?
> (Similarly for other images).
Then use ~/.cache/qemu-vm/images/freebsd-${hash}.img ?
Which will fill ~/.cache/qemu-vm/images with stale images over time,
which isn't great either ...
Or do you have something else in mind?
cheers,
Gerd
