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Re: [Xen-devel] Criteria / validation proposal: drop Xen




> On 12 Jul 2019, at 13:24, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 5:50 AM David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> IIRC, what we have right now is a somewhat vague setup where we just
>>> have 'local', 'ec2' and 'openstack' columns. The instructions for
>>> "Amazon Web Services" just say "Launch an instance with the AMI under
>>> test". So we could probably stand to tighten that up a bit, and define
>>> specific instance type(s) that we want to test/block on.
>> 
>> I think we can define a set of instance types that would cover what it
>> makes sense to test. Do we still care about actual PV guests or only
>> HVM? I think it makes sense to test guests with Xen netback and blkback
>> rather than only ENA and NVMe, but Fedora probably wants to test the
>> latter two *anyway*.
>> 
>> Do we want to do this by making sure you have free credits to run the
>> appropriate tests directly... or is it better all round for us to just
>> do this on nightly builds for ourselves?
>> 
>> The latter brings me to a question that's been bugging me for a while —
>> how in $DEITY's name *do* I launch the latest official Fedora AMI
>> anyway? I can't find it through the normal GUI launch process and have
>> to go to getfedora.org and click around for a while because I find the
>> specific AMI ID for the that region, and then manually enter that to
>> launch the instance. Can't we fix that so I can just select 'Fedora 30'
>> with a single click? Whose heads do I have to bash together to make
>> that work?
> 
> So the easiest way to do this is by going to link [1] and select the
> cloud image "click to launch" it gives you a list of AWS regions and
> takes you direct to the AWS dialogs to run them.
> 
> [1] https://alt.fedoraproject.org/cloud/

David, Peter,
thanks for helping resolve this issue. It seems to me that testing against EC2 
Xen instances should indeed cover what most users need
Lars


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