Add Packer configuration to build a minimal Alpine 3.23 UEFI VM for XCP-ng tests#523
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| "ifconfig eth0 up && udhcpc -i eth0<enter><wait5>", | ||
| # "USE<leftShiftOn>-<leftShiftOff>EFI=1 SWAP<leftShiftOn>-<leftShiftOff>SIZE=0 ERASE<leftShiftOn>-<leftShiftOff>DISKS=/dev/xvda setup-alpine -f http://{{.HTTPIP}}:{{.HTTPPort}}/answers.txt<enter>", | ||
| "USE<leftShiftOn>-<leftShiftOff>EFI=1 SWAP<leftShiftOn>-<leftShiftOff>SIZE=0 ERASE<leftShiftOn>-<leftShiftOff>DISKS=/dev/xvda setup-alpine -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xcp-ng/xcp-ng-tests/refs/heads/gln/packer-alpine-uefi-xcpng-loun/packer/http_files/answers.txt<enter>", |
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The value of -f flag should be generic, isn't it?
What do you think of using an hcl variable to enable configuration here?
| "rc-update add xe-guest-utilities default<enter>", | ||
| # "rc-service xe-guest-utilities start<enter>", | ||
| # Remove log files | ||
| "find /var/log -type f -exec truncate -s 0 {} \\;<enter>", |
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Those commands look similar to what I can see in cleanup.sh. Is it normal?
Btw, I don't see any occurrence of calling the cleanup script. Is there an implicit mechanism of Packer?
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Replace the BlockDeviceInfo TypedDict and the per-call disk_is_available() check with a dataclass that includes availability as a field, determined once at scan time using mountpoint, mdadm, LVM, and ZFS checks. Extend enumeration to cover mdadm arrays and multipath devices in addition to local disks. Update all callers to use attribute access instead of dict subscript. Signed-off-by: Gaëtan Lehmann <gaetan.lehmann@vates.tech>
zpool destroy removes the pool but leaves ZFS member signatures and the partition table on disk, causing the device to appear in use on the next test run. Signed-off-by: Gaëtan Lehmann <gaetan.lehmann@vates.tech>
Add a WWN field to BlockDeviceInfo (populated from lsblk for local disks, and from the DM alias for mpath devices). In the disks fixture, use WWNs to: - Mark a LUN unavailable on all hosts if it is already in use on any host (cross-host deduplication for shared FC/iSCSI LUNs). - Sort LUNs listed in LVMOHBA_DEVICE_CONFIG or LVMOISCSI_DEVICE_CONFIG to the end of each host's disk list, so they are only selected by other tests when no other disk is available. Signed-off-by: Gaëtan Lehmann <gaetan.lehmann@vates.tech>
Allow passing VHD_MAX and QCOW2_MAX as values to --volume-size and --write-volume-cap, making it easy to test at the maximum supported VDI size for each image format. MAX_VDI_SIZE in storage.py is now derived from the same constants to keep a single source of truth. Signed-off-by: Gaëtan Lehmann <gaetan.lehmann@vates.tech>
…ter performance Add an optional `align` parameter (default: 4KiB) to align span positions to a given block size. Only positions are aligned (rounded down); span sizes are reduced if needed to avoid overlapping the next span's position. When config.write_volume_cap is large enough, spans are contiguous and cover the full device with no gaps. Without alignment, write throughput drops from ~700MiB/s to ~200MiB/s on large disks. Signed-off-by: Gaëtan Lehmann <gaetan.lehmann@vates.tech>
…CP-ng tests The image is built with the vatesfr/packer-plugin-xenserver plugin targeting a local XCP-ng host. It produces a zstd-compressed XVA with: - Alpine Linux 3.23.4 (x86_64), UEFI boot (grub + GPT) - 1 vCPU, 256 MiB RAM, 512 MiB disk, no swap - xe-guest-utilities installed from the Alpine community repo - XCP-ng CI public SSH keys authorised for root - Post-processed by xva_bridge.py to set bridge=xenbr0 and zstd compression Signed-off-by: Gaëtan Lehmann <gaetan.lehmann@vates.tech>
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The image is built with the vatesfr/packer-plugin-xenserver plugin targeting a
local XCP-ng host. It produces a zstd-compressed XVA with:
Signed-off-by: Gaëtan Lehmann gaetan.lehmann@vates.tech
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