Kamil Rytarowski <n...@gmx.com> writes:
> On 12.06.2019 19:35, Alex Bennée wrote: >> >> Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> writes: >> >>> Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> writes: >>> >>>> 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. >>> >>> Queued to testing/next, thanks. >>> >>> One of the machines I'm testing on seems to have problems with getting >>> the installer working over the serial link but it works on my main dev >>> box and others have it working as well so I suspect it might be a local >>> problem. >> <snip> >> >> OK I had to drop this series due to persistent problems with the serial >> link on one of the boxes Peter uses to do his merge testing. Some of it >> seems to be QEMU specific (Ubuntu 18.04 system qemu just hangs) but I >> suspect there is also an issue with BSDs and our serial emulation >> generally. >> >> -- >> Alex Bennée >> > > What version of NetBSD did you test? There was recently a short lived > regression in curses(3) that affected sysinst(8) (installer) in HEAD, > but it was fixed. The error for NetBSD was navigating the installer which was dumping a lot of q's in the stream (unicode bar characters?). We were starting with: link = "https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.0/images/NetBSD-8.0-amd64.iso" -- Alex Bennée