~helmut/debvm.git - A tool for creating and running Debian-based VMs

Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
13 days	Attempt to limit test reliability by reducing concurrency	Helmut Grohne

2024-02-26	debvm-create: switch from genext2fs to mkfs.ext4	Helmut Grohne
	Why? genext2fs is slow. It has O(n^2) behaviour, which becomes annoying with larger filesystems. It also creates an ext2 image and we have to upgrade it to ext4 in multiple steps. Even then, the image has an inode size of 128, which is incompatible with 2038 and does not allow storing sub-second precision time stamps. How? We use mkfs.ext4 from e2fsprogs (which is required anyway) instead. Running this from within a --customize-hook does not work, because the user namespace used for the hook often has no privileges to write to the output image. Instead, we now ask mmdebstrap to output to a directory and create the filesystem separately. We construct a special namespace that has both access to the tree and to the output image and perform the mkfs.ext4 there. As a consequence, we no longer support any mode but unshare and since mkfs.ext4 consumes the size parameter, the size syntax is reduced a bit.
2024-02-26	tests/dist-upgrades.sh: add trixie	Helmut Grohne

2024-02-26	tests/dist-upgrades.sh: must use archive.d.o for old releases	Helmut Grohne

2023-01-17	Allow arbitrary image sizes	Jochen Sprickerhof

2023-01-03	debvm-waitssh: make timeout configurable and restore previous value for tests	Helmut Grohne

2023-01-03	add a debvm-waitssh utility	Helmut Grohne

2022-12-31	Use more variables	Jochen Sprickerhof

2022-12-31	tests: rework common code	Helmut Grohne
	Turn try-ssh.sh script into a shell function library.
2022-12-31	tests: discover tool under test from $PATH	Helmut Grohne
	This enables use in autopkgtests and makes it consistent with the create-and-run.sh test.
2022-12-28	Test dist-upgrades	Jochen Sprickerhof