Hi, Quoting Ian Jackson (2023-01-06 17:59:58) > This all seems very complex. I definitely want to have something working > before something like that could exist. Also, I think it would be a good > idea to do something ad-hoc, ideally in a number of packages, to gain > experience so we know what shape the "official" thing ought to be. > > I think therefore that I need to pursue some kind of within-testbed > nesting, as an interim approach at the very least. I was hoping that > someone else had solved (part of) this problem already...
there already exist a number of autopkgtest scripts that start a qemu virtual machine and then run some script inside of it by connecting to it via ssh. Maybe this can be helpful to you for now: https://sources.debian.org/src/dropbear/2022.83-1/debian/tests/remote-unlocking/?hl=112#L137 https://sources.debian.org/src/sbuild/0.85.0/debian/tests/unshare-qemuwrapper/?hl=206#L206 https://sources.debian.org/src/cryptsetup/2%3A2.6.0-2/debian/tests/utils/cryptroot-common/#L505 Thanks! cheers, josch
