Hi Sascha,
Thanks for taking the time to look at this! On fre, aug 28, 2026 at 14:10, "Sascha Hauer" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tobias, > > On 2026-08-24 18:31, Tobias Waldekranz wrote: >> [...] >> If the overall structure is OK with the community and maintainers, >> then the biggest remaining issue is testing. I have been surprised to >> learn that the standard LVM tools will not operate on disk images >> (without loopback mounting). Nor does there seem to be any other tools >> out there that allows you to provision PVs/VGs/LVs without having them >> "live" and attached to the host system. If there are any suggestions >> here they would be very welcome! > > Would guestfish be an option? That allows you to call pvcreate/vgcreate > on disk images. Thank you, I had completely forgotten about that! I definitely think that it would solve the problem. You would be okay with bringing that dependency into the barebox-ci container then? Do we foresee any issues with access to /dev/kvm or things like that from inside there? I guess it would still work in TCG mode, but might be slow?
