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[PATCH] nfs-root test is failing

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From: Stefan <stefan-guix <at> vodafonemail.de>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>, bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: nfs-root-fs test is failing
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 21:28:01 +0200

Hi Mathieu!

> I think I'll remove the "nfs-root-fs" test for now.

> Any objections?

I’d like to ask you to apply my patch. It paves the way for using nfs-shares inside virtual machines, which is not possible today. This is certainly a good impovement. 

The patch also fixes the nfs-root test. It would certainly work, if networking in qemu during the bootup works and if the two virtual machines are able to communicate via IP to each other.

It woud be sufficient to comment out the nfs-root test or even only the client part of it. But please don’t throw it away!

If either the kernel or the initrd will be changed to support networking in qemu, then this test needs possibly only small adjustments to start working. For the networking part at bootup it is enough to add CONFIG_E1000 when building linux-libre. Is that an acceptable change? If so then I could give it another try.


Bye

Stefan

Message #8 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan <stefan-guix <at> vodafonemail.de>
Cc: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>, bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: nfs-root-fs test is failing
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 19:30:03 +0200

Hello Stefan,

> I’d like to ask you to apply my patch. It paves the way for using
> nfs-shares inside virtual machines, which is not possible today. This
> is certainly a good impovement.

OK, I'll first need to dive into this NFS subject that I'm not familiar
with. In the meantime, let's not block the release with that test
failure which doesn't look like a regression.

Unblocking the 1.3.0 release ticket.

Thanks,

Mathieu

Message #11 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan <stefan-guix <at> vodafonemail.de>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>,
 Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: nfs-root-fs test is failing
Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 22:03:36 +0200

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Hi Mathieu and Danny!

I got the nfs-root test working now with the attached patch.

It makes use of the (modify-linux) function from my other patch series¹, as the current kernel for x86 is not capable to use an NFS root file system.



Bye

Stefan


¹ <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=48314>

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