[Vmdebootstrap-devel] vmdebootstrap for a qemubuilder --create replacement

[Neil Williams]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 16:47:59 +0000
"Iain R. Learmonth" <irl at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> There is ongoing work to add new backends (adt-virt-* and
> uchroot/user-unshare) to sbuild.
> 
> https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/buildd-tools-devel/2015-December/010172.html
> 
> While I'm currently maintaining qemubuilder, I'd really rather not be
> doing that, and so this looks like a nice way of me not doing that
> anymore. I've spoken to josch and he suggested the use of
> vmdebootstrap for a replacment for qemubuilder --create so I'll be
> investigating that this week hopefully.
> 
> If anyone has any insight before I dive into that, that would be
> great. Otherwise I'll report back once I've done some testing later
> in the week.

The one thing which occurs to me is, if this is to use grub
(preferred), remember to use the serial-console option as although this
doesn't affect /etc/inittab in jessie or later, it is passed down to
grub to ensure that grub can use the serial console.

(I'm wondering about making this default for suites later than jessie,
it doesn't really hurt for all images to have a serial console
available. Mind you, I'm also thinking that grub could be the default
instead of syslinux for the same suites.)

-- 


Neil Williams
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