On Tue, Jul 07, 2026 at 11:09:12PM +0200, Anatol Belski wrote: > On Tue, 2026-07-07 at 11:39 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > > We appreciate the intent not to flood projects ! Feel free to > > drip-feed issues to us, a handful at a time though over days > > or weeks if there will be alot to process. > > > > We recently switched our security disclosure process over to using > > our regular GitLab issue tracker, so would prefer any bugs to be > > filed there, rather than emailing people directly: > > > > https://www.qemu.org/contribute/security-process/ > > Perfect, that makes it easy. I will file on the GitLab tracker and > send them in small batches over the next couple of weeks rather than > all at once. For the ones with a host side impact, a guest triggered > hang or use after free, I will tick the confidential box and let > triage decide whether it stays that way. > > > > We also have tests/functional/ in QEMU where we boot real guest OS > > disk images and/or kernel/initrd pairs. The minimal initramfs > > approach would probably fit in nicely with that, and indeed I have > > long wanted us to replace some of our full-fat disk images with > > minimal self contained initramfs images to speed up smoke testing. > > That sounds like a clean fit. The harness already boots a kernel plus > a tiny initramfs with a single static init and no full OS, so it > should slot into tests/functional/ with little friction. Each test > finishes in under a second when passing, since there is no full VM > boot involved, which makes it suitable for smoke testing too. Would > it be useful to have these wired in there directly, or is there a > different shape that would work better for you?
Yes, I think it'd be interesting to try to fit them directly into a functional test script. I guess having the virtio-villain repo as a git submodule would probably be the way to go to access the individual tests to build the initramfs. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com ~~ https://hachyderm.io/@berrange :| |: https://libvirt.org ~~ https://entangle-photo.org :| |: https://pixelfed.art/berrange ~~ https://fstop138.berrange.com :|
