On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 02:47:02PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > This patch series changes the way virtual machines for test builds are > managed. They are created locally on the developer machine now. The > installer is booted on the serial console and the scripts walks through > the dialogs to install and configure the guest. > > That takes the download.patchew.org server out of the loop and makes it > alot easier to tweak the guest images (adding build dependencies for > example). > > The install scripts take care to apply host proxy settings (from *_proxy > environment variables) to the guest, so any package downloads will be > routed through the proxy and can be cached that way. This also makes > them work behind strict firewalls. > > There are also a bunch of smaller tweaks for tests/vm to fix issues I > was struggling with. See commit messages of individual patches for > details.
Ping. Alex? Fam? Are you going to pick this up? Or should I send a pull request? cheers, Gerd
