Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH OSSTEST v4 00/25] add distro domU testing flight

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH OSSTEST v4 00/25] add distro domU 
testing flight"):
> The failures mainly seem to be some sort of proxy issue returning old
> data (similar to what used to happen to mg-debian-installer-update),

Maybe we can set up an explicit proxy which actually works.  I guess
that might need negotiation with Citrix corporate IT.

Luckily the new colo is not affected by anything like this.

> On a small number I see "The installer failed to download a file from
> the mirror." messages, which might be the cache/proxy or might be an
> actual Debian issue.

Hrm.  I find these vague error messages exceptionally frustrating
(debootstrap has this problem too).

> The -raw tests all failed due to a timeout doing:
>         dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/lib/xen/images/debian/disk.raw bs=1M 
> count=10000
>         
> I'm unclear if it timed out after 30 (as the code seems to say) or 60
> (as the logs seem to say) but either way something obviously needs
> adjusting. I just tried it on my local test box and it took 1m20s and
> reported 130 MB/s. I've appended an as yet untested patch which assumed
> 100 MB/s and calculates a timeout from that.

Do you intend to fold that patch in ?

> I could switch to using "count=1 seek=10000" to create a sparse file,
> which should be pretty much instantaneous, but allocating the whole
> backing file seemed like a good idea.

Right.

Thanks,
Ian.

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