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Re: [Xen-devel] Criteria / validation proposal: drop Xen

To: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx>

From: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 09:13:22 +0100

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Cc: Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases <test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>, Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx>, "marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dario Faggioli <dfaggioli@xxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Committers <committers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "MICHAEL A. YOUNG" <m.a.young@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxx>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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> On 12 Jul 2019, at 13:24, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 5:50 AM David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >>> IIRC, what we have right now is a somewhat vague setup where we just >>> have 'local', 'ec2' and 'openstack' columns. The instructions for >>> "Amazon Web Services" just say "Launch an instance with the AMI under >>> test". So we could probably stand to tighten that up a bit, and define >>> specific instance type(s) that we want to test/block on. >> >> I think we can define a set of instance types that would cover what it >> makes sense to test. Do we still care about actual PV guests or only >> HVM? I think it makes sense to test guests with Xen netback and blkback >> rather than only ENA and NVMe, but Fedora probably wants to test the >> latter two *anyway*. >> >> Do we want to do this by making sure you have free credits to run the >> appropriate tests directly... or is it better all round for us to just >> do this on nightly builds for ourselves? >> >> The latter brings me to a question that's been bugging me for a while — >> how in $DEITY's name *do* I launch the latest official Fedora AMI >> anyway? I can't find it through the normal GUI launch process and have >> to go to getfedora.org and click around for a while because I find the >> specific AMI ID for the that region, and then manually enter that to >> launch the instance. Can't we fix that so I can just select 'Fedora 30' >> with a single click? Whose heads do I have to bash together to make >> that work? > > So the easiest way to do this is by going to link [1] and select the > cloud image "click to launch" it gives you a list of AWS regions and > takes you direct to the AWS dialogs to run them. > > [1] https://alt.fedoraproject.org/cloud/ David, Peter, thanks for helping resolve this issue. It seems to me that testing against EC2 Xen instances should indeed cover what most users need Lars _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel

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