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Re: QEMU in Jessie: call for testers



El 24/11/18 a las 10:46, Hugo Lefeuvre escribió:
> > > > > I have prepared a preliminary package for qemu to fix most of currently
> > > > > open CVEs (among those that have a patch or have been fixed in stretch).
> > > > > I would be glad if someone could give it a try. It is found in the usual
> > > > > place:
> > > > > 
> > > > >     deb https://people.debian.org/~santiago/debian santiago-jessie-security/
> > > > >     deb-src https://people.debian.org/~santiago/debian santiago-jessie-security
> > > > 
> > > > I installed your package in a clean environment and made some basic use
> > > > of it, such as create raw disks, create instances (some different
> > > > architectures), boot existent disks. Everything seems fine so far.
> > > 
> > > I will proceed to a few tests on my side this afternoon if the upload can
> > > wait till then. Those will probably be run on a fresh Jessie livecd though
> > > (my processor does not support nested virtualization which is quite
> > > annoying when I want to test QEMU in a Jessie VM...)
> > 
> > So far as I know, any x86 processor supporting VMX or SVM supports
> > nested virtualisation.  However, nested VMX was considered
> > experimental in KVM for a long time so you have to set a module
> > parameter to enable it.
> 
> Oh, thanks ! That's right, nested virtualization was not enabled by default,
> setting nested=1 to kvm_intel did it. :)
> 
> for the tests:
> 
> + install the update
> + create a new disk image (qcow + raw img), start debian installer, various
>   archs, convert between formats
> + boot a few official test images, FreeDOS, minimal NetBSD, Aurelien's
>   Debian images for amd64[0]
> + test with different memory parameters, cpu number, with and without kvm
> 
> Seems fine to me.

Thanks to all of you!

> You might be interested in running QemuIoTests[1] ?

I will take a look at them before uploading. Thanks again.

Cheers,

Santiago

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