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<pre>fai-kvm -n cd faicd64-small_5. | <pre>fai-kvm -n cd faicd64-small_5.7.iso</pre> | ||
* Since a lot of things run in RAM this setup is very fast! A simple installation takes about 30 to 90 seconds. | * Since a lot of things run in RAM this setup is very fast! A simple installation takes about 30 to 90 seconds. | ||
Latest revision as of 14:27, 11 September 2018
A nice test setup
This is how Mrfai does testing
- 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 nice
- The host on which I run all tests has a quad-core Core i7-3770T, 2.5GHz, 32GB RAM, GBit LAN
- my /tmp entry in etc/fstab: tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=85%,mode=1777 0 0
- Set up a software bridge, so kvm can use a tap device (using the script fai-mk-network)
- Install fai packages, create the nfsroot
- Using fai-kvm you can boot a test client via PXE or from FAI CD
fai-kvm -n pxe
fai-kvm pxe
fai-kvm -n cd faicd64-small_5.7.iso
- 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,GRUB,GNOME,GERMAN /tmp/m1
- Create the ISO image (run this as root)
fai-cd -m /tmp/m1 /files/scratch/fai-cd.iso
- Run the CD in a VM
fai-kvm -n cd /files/scratch/fai-cd.iso