Test setup

A nice test setup

This is how Mrfai does testing (since FAI 3.4.8)

• Set up a Debian mirror in your local LAN (using debmirror(1) and /usr/share/doc/fai-doc/examples/utils/mkdebmirror)
• 2GB RAM for this mirror should be fine, GBit LAN is required
• The host on which I run all tests has a Q4 Core i7 960, 3.2GHz, 6GB RAM, GBit LAN
• /etc/default/tmpfs: SHM_SIZE=5g
• Set up a software bridge, so kvm can use a tap device (using the script File:Bridge-on.sh)
• Install fai packages, create the nfsroot
• Using File:Fai-kvm.sh you can boot a test client via PXE or from FAI CD

fai-kvm.sh -n pxe

fai-kvm.sh pxe

fai-kvm.sh -n faicd

• Since a lot of things run in RAM this setup is very fast! A simple installation takes about 30 to 90 seconds.

Creating a FAI-CD ISO image

• Create a partitial mirror containing the packages needed (16s needed)

fai-mirror -m9999  -xXEN,I386,CHROOT,LILO,GRUB,GNOME,GERMAN /dev/shm/m1

• Create the ISO image (run this as root, 1.3s needed)

fai-cd -m /dev/shm/m1 /files/scratch/fai-cd.iso