more test images

[krimdomu]

Build of basic/minimal OS images for:

• at least
  • Gentoo
  • Debian 6
  • OpenSUSE 12.3
  • OpenSUSE 13.1
  • Fedora 18
  • Fedora 19
  • Mageia 3
  • NetBSD
  • OpenBSD
  • Solaris 10
  • Solaris 11
• additional
  • RHEL 5
  • RHEL 6
  • SLES 10
  • SLES 11
  • ALT Linux

Important things

• vms need to have dhcp enabled on eth0
• vms must have one network device
• the mac address of the network device should not be saved in a file inside the vm (for example in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and/or /etc/udev/rules.d/70-net*)
• the vm must have an enabled root account with the password "box"
• the images should be as default installations as possible, while keeping it to as minimal as it makes sense - many distributions provide minimal and/or server installers for this purpose
• the images should have sufficient free space to make installation of some additional packages possible (during test preparation and package managing tests) - in our experience 4G is usually adequate
• the images are preferred to be created as sparse images and/or to be compressed (e.g. qcow2 format can handle stuff like those) - it speeds up the upload and the cloning process if we could keep the image small

[krimdomu]

These basic images can also be used for Rex::Boxes

[ferki]

Added Debian 6 i386 and amd64 standard installation images/VMs. Based on Debian developer Aurelien Jarno's stable images. The following steps were needed to be run as root before they could be used for testing:

apt-get update && apt-get install openssh-server
rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
mv /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules.disabled
echo root:box | chpasswd

[krimdomu]

Thanks much for the images. They had no errors.

I've just fixed the tests / and the development branch of rex, so the tests are now running.

[krimdomu]

added opensuse 12.3

[krimdomu]

added fedora 18 and 19
added opensuse 13.1
added mageia 3

[krimdomu]

freebsd was also added a while ago

[ferki]

Thanks to @roa, we have a Gentoo VM for functional tests now.