Re: Official cloud/live images ?

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Tue, 2024-03-26 12:37:44 +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult 
 wrote:
> On 25.03.24 21:24, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> 
> > For my own CI builds, I'm cross-building NetBSD from Linux for all
> > port/cpus and use that generated amd64 install ISO to do an autoated
> > installation into Qemu (simple `expect` script.)
> 
> Can you share how exactly you're doing it ?

I'll happily share some scripts, but they're somewhat tied to my CI
setup here and thus not easy to use without the surrounding stuff.
(For example, there's a generic "create a VM" script running Qemu or
SIMH, maybe creating virtual disks or overlays, maybe extracting a
tarball with NetBSD's release directory for getting the Install ISO
etc.) So I kind of hesitate throwing it into the public without docs,
but I'll drop you the scripts with some brief comments so that you'd
easily cut out the "relevant" parts.)

  An actual longer-term goal is to package them to an extend where I
can easily re-install all the CI setup, but I'm not yet there.
However, I'm using that stuff on a day-to-day basis for generic
Linux/GCC/Binutils/GDB/glibc/NetBSD/... CI jobs and it is at least fit
for that job.

MfG, JBG

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Re: Official cloud/live images ?

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Mon, 2024-03-25 20:53:49 +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult 
 wrote:
> are there any official live images that allow direct login via ssh
> (no password), which can directly be used for cloud / continous
> integration jobs ?
> 
> I'm currently setting up CI jobs for building Xorg on NetBSD, but I've
> only found an amd64 live image, where sshd is pretty locked down
> (no root login, etc), so I had to manually log in on console and change
> sshd config. That's quite unpleasant - I'd rather directly use the
> official release images instead.

For my own CI builds, I'm cross-building NetBSD from Linux for all
port/cpus and use that generated amd64 install ISO to do an autoated
installation into Qemu (simple `expect` script.) I use that generated
image as a r/o image with a writeable overlay (all plain Qemu
functionality) to have "throw-away" instances (different only by MAC
address) that I can easily start and end to do CI builds within a
NetBSD environment.

MfG, JBG

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