Hello Rohit, Should the procedure of Building the SystemVM template appliance be tested? Or Should the templates produced at the end be tested for their functionality? I referred to your blog and found information pertaining to challenges that you faced during building the template but didn't find information pertaining to procedure. May I know the location where I can find documentation pertaining to the procedure and what needs to be tested as a QA effort?
Thank you, Chandan. -----Original Message----- From: rohityada...@gmail.com [mailto:rohityada...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Rohit Yadav Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 2:31 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Building SystemVM template appliance On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Chiradeep Vittal <chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com> wrote: > Hi Rohit > >>> >>> Are the format conversions automated? >> >>They are now! The file name format is: >>$appliance-$build_date-$branch-hyperv.$format >>Format conversion and archiving is automated on a large instance with >>export formats: >>ova -> vmware >>vhd -> xen >>qcow2 -> kvm >>vhd -> hyperv >> >>Build job: >>http://jenkins.cloudstack.org/view/All/job/build-systemvm-master >> >>But I'm yet to try one of xen or kvm templates. The bugs would be >>mostly fixable in postinstall.sh >> >>For exporting xen images from raw image, I had to build xen (for a >>library) and vhd-util from blktap2/tools. Will post a blog on that >>exercise. > > I used to use a patch from the Xen ML to enable vhd-util to do > conversions, but IIRC this has been merged into master. If others > (outside of the build server) want to use vhd-util what are their options? > >> >>I've fixed the partition as regular one with different partitions for >>/var, /opt, /usr, /tmp, /boot, /home, please see the partitions sizes, >>advise if we want to change them: (syntax: min. size, priority, max. >>size) >>https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-cloudstack.git;a=c >>ommi t;h=ab63a433ecbf60e18ad6cbcb0353c61fa432bcdc > > Looks good. Glad to see swap space. Have dealt with a few OOMs when > the system vm was FC8 and did not have swap. > >> >>Chiradeep, we can copy stuff inside the appliance using veewee vbox >>ssh <command> or scping before we halt using veewee vbox halt >><machine>. How do you want to use the config.dat, > > We should not need config.dat now that the debconf-set-selections > trick is used. First automated build (the whole rvm non-interactive non-login shell issue took me a lot of time to figure out, the bug at jenkins was that $HOME was not defined for rvm): http://jenkins.cloudstack.org/job/build-systemvm-master/47/console Archived appliances: http://people.apache.org/~bhaisaab/systemvm Blog: http://rohityadav.in/logs/building-systemvms/ Now, all we need to do is test them against real hosts and fix any post installation scripts, network conf. Regards. > >
