NAME

       adt-virt-qemu - autopkgtest virtualisation server using QEMU

SYNOPSIS

       adt-virt-qemu [options] image [ro-image ...]

DESCRIPTION

       adt-virt-qemu provides an autopkgtest virtualisation server using QEMU.

       Normally adt-virt-qemu will be invoked by adt-run.

       You  always  need  to specify at least one QEMU VM image. If your VM needs more disks, you
       can specify arbitrarily many additional images which will be added in order.

       adt-virt-qemu does not modify the given  images,  but  will  instead  create  a  temporary
       overlay for the primary image, and add all other images as read-only.

       The first image without the overlay is always added as an additional read-only hard drive,
       which will be available for tests as  /dev/baseimage.   This  allows  tests  that  require
       nested  VMs  to  reuse the same image. Be aware that /dev/baseimage will not be accessible
       between calling adt-reboot-prepare and the next boot, thus make sure to stop accessing  it
       before.

REQUIREMENTS

       adt-virt-qemu  assumes  that  you have already prepared a suitable Debian based QEMU image
       (see BUILDING IMAGES below for how to create them). But you  can  use  any  VM  which  has
       python3 or python installed and either

       *   opens a root shell on ttyS1, or

       *   has  a  serial console on ttyS0 where you can log in (getty or similar) with specified
           user and password. This will then be used to start a root shell on  ttyS1,  to  reduce
           this  to  the first case and to not assume that ttyS0 stays operational throughout the
           whole test.

OPTIONS

       -u user | --user=user

              User name for running tests that don't require root privileges.

              If the VM is not already prepared to start a root shell on ttyS1 this will be  also
              used  for  logging  in  on  ttyS0. If this is not root, it must be able to run sudo
              without a password to become root for that purpose.

       -p password | --password=password
              Password for above user for logging into the VM on ttyS0. This is necessary if  the
              VM is not already prepared to start a root shell on ttyS1.

       -q command | --qemu-command=command
              QEMU  command  to  run. This defaults to the qemu-system-* that matches your system
              architecture.

       -o dir | --overlay-dir=dir
              Directory where the temporary image overlay for the primary image  is  created.  By
              default  this will happen in a work directory in /tmp (or $TMPDIR), but you can use
              this to e. g. ensure that the overlay is placed on a tmpfs if your  /tmp  directory
              is not on tmpfs. This will greatly increase the speed.

       -c num | --cpus=num"
              Number of (virtual) CPUs in the VM. Default is 1.

       --ram-size=MiB
              VM RAM size in MiB. Default is 1024, i. e. 1 GiB.

       --show-boot
              Show boot messages from serial console.

       -d | --debug
              Enable debugging output.

       --qemu-options=arguments
              Pass through arguments to QEMU command; e. g. --qemu-options='-readconfig qemu.cfg'

CONFIGURATION FILES

       If you use lots of options or images, you can put parts of, or the whole command line into
       a text file, with one line per option. E. g. you can create a  file  sid-desktop.cfg  with
       contents like

              -utestuser
              -ps3kr1t
              --ram-size=4096
              /home/bob/autopkgtest/sid-desktop.img

       and then run

              adt-run [...] --- adt-virt-qemu @sid-desktop.cfg

       The  contents  of  the  configuration  file will be expanded in-place as if you would have
       given its contents on the command line. Please ensure that you don't place spaces  between
       short options and their values, they would become a part of the argument value.

INPUT, OUTPUT AND EXIT STATUS

       The  behaviour  of  adt-virt-qemu  is  as described by the AutomatedTesting virtualisation
       regime specification.

NOTES

       adt-run does not run apt-get update at the start of a package build,  which  can  cause  a
       build failure if you are using a development series template. You will need to run apt-get
       update in the template yourself (e. g. using --setup-commands).

       If the --qemu-command option has not been specified and no custom CPU type was selected in
       --qemu-options,  adt-virt-qemu  will try to enable nested KVM support by default on x86_64
       platforms if the hardware supports this. To fully enable this, one needs  to  additionally
       set some module parameters on the host, by creating a file /etc/modprobe.d/nested_kvm.conf
       with the contents

       options kvm_intel nested=1
       options kvm_amd   nested=1

       and rebooting or reloading the KVM modules. It is still possible  to  use  QEMU  in  tests
       without this, albeit without hardware acceleration. On Ubuntu systems these module options
       are typically already set.

BUILDING IMAGES

   Debian
       For Debian you can use vmdebootstrap(8) to build a suitable image. E. g. for unstable:

              vmdebootstrap --verbose --serial-console --distribution=sid \
                 --customize=/usr/share/autopkgtest/setup-commands/setup-testbed \
                 --user=adt/adt --size=10000000000 --grub --image=adt-sid.raw
              qemu-img convert -O qcow2 adt-sid.raw  adt-sid.img
              rm adt-sid.raw

       vmdebootstrap can only create a raw format image; it is recommended to convert it to qcow2
       as  that  is  much  smaller  (in  the order of 700 MB for qcow2 vs. the 10 GB as specified
       above) and also supports additional features such as snapshots or compression. You can run
       that  command with setting the environment variable ADT_APT_PROXY to a proxy which will be
       used by apt in the VM. If you have apt-cacher-ng installed on the host, this will be  used
       automatically; otherwise you can run e. g.

              ADT_APT_PROXY=http://10.0.2.2:8080 vmdebootstrap [...]

   Ubuntu
       For  Ubuntu,  autopkgtest  provides adt-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud(1) to build a VM based on the
       Ubuntu cloud images. To create an image for the current development series  and  the  i386
       architecture:

              adt-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud -v -a i386

       This will produce e. g.  adt-trusty-i386-cloud.img.

EXAMPLE

       Run the tests of the libpng source package, using an Ubuntu cloud image:

              adt-run libpng --- adt-virt-qemu adt-trusty-i386-cloud.img

SEE ALSO

       adt-run(1),     adt-virt-schroot(1),     adt-virt-lxc(1),     adt-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud(1),
       vmdebootstrap(8), /usr/share/doc/autopkgtest/.

AUTHORS AND COPYRIGHT

       adt-virt-qemu was written by Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>

       This manpage  is  part  of  autopkgtest,  a  tool  for  testing  Debian  binary  packages.
       autopkgtest is Copyright (C) 2006-2014 Canonical Ltd and others.

       See  /usr/share/doc/autopkgtest/CREDITS  for  the  list  of  contributors and full copying
       conditions.