Auto-building emulator downloads

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 20:05 -0400, Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
> Ivan Krstić wrote:
> > On Aug 26, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
> >
> >> Still, building them somewhere not behind a cable modem would be a 
> >> good idea.
> >
> > Right, I assumed giving you a shell on dev would let you convert the 
> > images right on that machine. Are there other requirements?
> There's a few:
> 
>     * Qemu installation (for the qemu-img tool that converts to VMWare
>       disks)
>     * VirtualBox installation (for the vboxmanage tool that converts to
>       VirtualBox disks)

No need for this as VB can run VMWare disk fine.

>     * The overlay stuff also requires:
>           o ability to mount a loopback partition (to modify the ext3
>             image with the overlay)
>           o ability to do an rsync over top of the mounted image
>             (requires super-user access AFAICS)
> 
> The first two might be something you could run on dev (though I'd be 
> hesitant to increase your attack surface for the machine that way), but 
> the overlay operations are not the kind of thing you want running on a 
> publicly accessible server AFAICS, just too many security issues, 
> really.  You'd want to run it on an old box somewhere with nothing 
> sensitive on it and then push the images up to dev I would think.

I already have scripts in pilgrim to do a sdk build which outputs a
vmware image with vmware and VB meta files.  Let's build on that and I
can do sdk builds along with regular builds.  I just need to know what
people think should be in a development image.  BTW the build servers
run as root and have qemu on them.

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>