On Wed Oct 11, 2023 at 7:55 AM AEST, Warner Losh wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 1:53 AM Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > FreeBSD project provides qcow2 images that work well for testing QEMU. > > Add pseries tests for HPT and Radix, KVM and TCG. > > > > Other architectures could be added so this does not get a ppc_ prefix > > but is instead named similarly to boot_linux. > > > > Cc: Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> > > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com> > > > > CC'ing Warner to check if it's okay for us to use these images and > > any comments or suggestions. avocado tests have many Linux boots so we'd > > do much better to expand test coverage by adding some other systems. > > > > I like this.... I'm a little worried at the exact hash encoded in it, but > since there's a checksum > to match, it's OK I guess. It will give this code a shelf-life of months, > IIRC our retention policy.
The oldest 15.0 CURRENT image on there is May 1st, so ~6 months? That's not too bad. There are some release qcow2 images as well which sound like they're maintained longer-term: https://download.freebsd.org/releases/VM-IMAGES/ No builds for powerpc, but those might be preferable for other targets. Another option for powerpc might be to use a release .iso. It's much nicer to have a qcow image already installed though. I'll tinker with it a bit more, but may stick with the snapshot for now. Thanks, Nick
