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Why did I chose that name is buried deep in the +script, kudos to who find it ( and there goes the trick to make people +read my code ). + +Presentation +------------- + +The idea is to use the network installation of cauldron on a qemu vm, to +restart the vm and thanks to autologin, autostart folder of xdg and +serial virtio, send the information to the host that the installation ad +first boot worked. Then after a timeout, the virtual machine is wiped, +and a mail is sent if the installation was not finished in 30 minutes +( configurable delay, based on the time needed on my laptop and my +network connection ). + + +The goal is to test if the automated installation work, and if the +distribution is able to boot. While this seems not much, that's at least +a starting point. + +Remaining problem +------------------ + +Main problems is that it requires a patch on virtinst, to add the +support of Mageia ( <A HREF="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733121">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733121</A> +). So I cannot deploy it now on rabbit, as this would requires some +custom packages and some tests first. + +For now, it was tested against Mandriva 2010.2 that installed fine each +time. As each run take me 30 minutes, there may still have some bugs +left or introduced after the last cleaning. So while I think it should +work fine and out of the box on supported hardware ( connected to the +internet, with 1G of memory to spare, proper processor and around 9G of +free disk space ), I didn't test anywhere else than on my laptop. + +I post this here so I can gather patches and ideas ( I remind that +remarks without patchs will have a non negligible chance of not being +implemented wether I am convinced or not ), and I will commit the script +to our svn once I am sure it is ready ( ie soon ) + +The future +----------- + +The idea could be extended to run more than a simple script that do +"echo hello > /dev/ttyS0" ( as it does now ) like something that for +example start firefox on a custom url, check that firefox did start and +was able to load the url then kill it. + +Using xnee, or accessibility support, some automation of graphical +interface could be done, but that's the hard part. + +I also planned to also add a screenshot of the guest upon failure ( that +requires a recent libvirt ) and to suspend the system for further +analysis, and to distribute this with a webserver. Some more +informations could be gather with libguestfs, but I didn't looked much +at it for now. + +I also didn't think of integration with something like buildbot or +jenkins, or just youri. + +And finally, with automated livecd creation we could also test livecd, +provided the small hook I used are added ( ie, 1 script and 1 desktop +file ) is added, and provided we shunt the first time boot wizard. +-- +Michael Scherer +-------------- next part -------------- +A non-text attachment was scrubbed... +Name: viviane.sh +Type: application/x-shellscript +Size: 6466 bytes +Desc: not available +URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20110825/7f2c0b35/attachment-0001.bin> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="007549.html">[Mageia-dev] Security +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="007546.html">[Mageia-dev] Viviane, automated system to test installer +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#7539">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#7539">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#7539">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#7539">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |