Mailing List Archive: XM-Test takes a really long time to build the initrd it uses for testing. This patch to the Makefile allows you to specify INITRD="url" when running make existing to make it download a prebuilt copy of the initrd from a repository.

# HG changeset patch
# User pl@us.ibm.com
# Node ID b41e196442712ce92ed482c1310db33354ea7fc8
# Parent 13e9fdaeed277e8563d261174550130a5f20e88f
XM-Test takes a really long time to build the initrd it uses for testing. This patch to the Makefile allows you to specify INITRD="url" when running make existing to make it download a prebuilt copy of the initrd from a repository.

Signed-off-by: Paul Larson <pl@us.ibm.com>

diff -r 13e9fdaeed27 -r b41e19644271 tools/xm-test/README
--- a/tools/xm-test/README Wed Feb 22 08:54:20 2006
+++ b/tools/xm-test/README Wed Feb 22 15:02:54 2006
@@ -48,6 +48,15 @@
Simply copy the initrd-X.Y.img file into ramdisk/ and then run:

# make existing
+
+Or, you can run:
+ # INITRD="http://url.of.initrd.repo/" make existing
+
+You do not need to include the name of the image itself in the url,
+however, an initrd with the right name (initrd.X.Y.img) and version
+number must exist at that location. The script will determine which
+version of the initrd it needs and try to download the right file from
+that location.

This will set up the link so that xm-test will use the existing
ramdisk. Next, just run "runtest.sh" normally. Note that in general,
diff -r 13e9fdaeed27 -r b41e19644271 tools/xm-test/ramdisk/Makefile.am
--- a/tools/xm-test/ramdisk/Makefile.am Wed Feb 22 08:54:20 2006
+++ b/tools/xm-test/ramdisk/Makefile.am Wed Feb 22 15:02:54 2006
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@
fi

existing:
+ @if test -n "$(INITRD)"; then \
+ wget $(INITRD)/$(XMTEST_VER_IMG); \
+ fi
@if [ -f $(XMTEST_VER_IMG) ] ; then \
ln -sf $(XMTEST_VER_IMG) initrd.img; \
else \

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