Re: [PATCH v2 00/16] wic integration

[Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>]

Am Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:53:04 +0300
schrieb Alexander Smirnov <asmirnov@ilbers.de>:

> Hi Henning,
> 
> On 04/13/2018 05:18 PM, Henning Schild wrote:
> > This series does the follow things:
> > 
> > 1. revert all changes that where made to wic so Isar uses an
> > unmodified version of it
> > 2. Introdcue an image-class that will create wic images
> > automatically 3. enable testing that in CI
> > 4. update docs
> > 
> > Patches 1 to 7 just deal with getting back to an unmodified version
> > of wic.
> > Patch 11 - the big one - provides the real functionality.
> > 
> > I will provide some more information on what is going on here by
> > replying to p11.
> > 
> > Major changes to the first series:
> >   - rebase on recent Isar
> >   - wic is now running in buildchroot, as root
> >   - calling wic manually not supported any longer
> >   - distros before stretch are not supported either (see p11
> > discussion for why)
> >   - CI can now test wic for the first time  
> 
> Thank you for this contribution!
> 
> For now I have one issue with it, after applying patch #13, the 
> 'start_vm' script doesn't work anymore:

Ok, all of that actually worked in your CI. Except for one small
thing ... For some reason the qemu login prompt capturing fails for
the efi wic image, but the image boots and the prompt appears.
At that point i stopped because i guess the problem might be in the
qemu or something in the CI setup

see: 
  job/isar_henning_ilbers-ci/34/console


> $ start_vm -a arm -d jessie
> ++ qemu-system-arm -m 1024M -M virt -cpu cortex-a15 -nographic
> -kernel /home/builder/isar/build/tmp/deploy/images/vmlinuz-3.16.0-5-armmp_debian-jessie-qemuarm 
> -initrd 
> /home/builder/isar/build/tmp/deploy/images/initrd.img-3.16.0-5-armmp_debian-jessie-qemuarm 
> -append '"console=ttyAMA0' root=/dev/vda 'rw"' -drive 

The quoting looks weird. My guess is that /bin/sh on that system is not
the same as on the CI. For the testing i did locally it was a "dash"
from jessie.

Henning

> file=/home/builder/isar/build/tmp/deploy/images/isar-image-base-debian-jessie-qemuarm.ext4.img,if=none,format=raw,id=hd0 
> -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0
> qemu-system-arm: -append "console=ttyAMA0: Could not open 
> 'root=/dev/vda': No such file or directory
> 
> 
> I suppose this is a minor issue with arguments, will come back with
> updates.
> 
> Alex
>