On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 04:39:38PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote: > On Thu, 08/31 12:59, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > > Hi Fam, > > > > On 08/31/2017 03:42 AM, Fam Zheng wrote: > > > This is the common code to implement a "VM test" to > > > > > > 1) Download and initialize a pre-defined VM that has necessary > > > dependencies to build QEMU and SSH access. > > > > Looking at this project: > > > > https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/qemu.html > > > > Maybe we can have another CI that prepare/upload those images (reproducible, > > easy upgrade version...), and document the build process in the JSON instead > > of the wiki (so the doc is up to date). > > Thanks for the pointer, looks interesting. The json files can be committed to > QEMU if we go that way. Though I'm not very convinced by the "screen capture" > style automation that is used by the *BSD user recipes I've found with google. > It would be good if *BSD can have cloud-init or kickstart -alike automation, > with those we don't even need Packer.
FreeBSD at least supports automation of its installer. eg https://github.com/clalancette/oz/blob/master/oz/FreeBSD.py Haven't found info on other *BSDs though. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
