Testing core image builds

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Hi, I have an MP I’m wanting to test:

https://github.com/snapcore/core-build/pull/15

How would I go about testing that in an image build that I can boot? Right now I’m following a process like this:

snap install ubuntu-image --edge --classic
snap known --remote model series=16 brand-id=canonical model=pc-amd64 > pc-amd64.model
ubuntu-image -d -c edge -o test.img pc-amd64.model
# Remove seed from test.img...
qemu-img convert -p -f raw -O qcow2 test.img test.qcow2
# Lauch the .qcow2 with qemu and test.

Thanks in advance! :slight_smile:

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Hey @dpb, thanks a lot for your contribution! I think you need to build the core snap first from your branch, then create an image using something like:

sudo /snap/bin/ubuntu-image --extra-snaps <your_core_snap_path> --image-size 3G -c edge -O . pc-amd64.model

and then boot it with something like:

kvm -snapshot -smp 2 -m 1500 -redir tcp:8022::22 -nographic -serial mon:stdio ./pc.img

In order to build the core snap you can use a chroot or a vm, sudo snapcraft for your branch should be enough, @ogra can probably give more details

Let me know if this works for you, thanks

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Thanks @fgimenez – how do I go about actually building the core snap? Are there public docs somwhere for that?

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The core snap is built from https://github.com/snapcore/core, in order to put your changes in place AFAIK you should build the debs from https://github.com/raharper/core-build/tree/change-dsident-maybe-mode in a ppa and then add that ppa with high priority to https://github.com/snapcore/core/blob/master/Makefile#L3, if it is called myppa something like:

ENV := PROJECT=ubuntu-core SUBPROJECT=system-image EXTRA_PPAS='snappy-dev/image snappy-dev/edge myppa:1000' IMAGEFORMAT=plain SUITE=$(RELEASE) ARCH=$(DPKG_ARCH)

About documentation, I know we have https://github.com/snapcore/core/blob/master/README.md, not sure if there’s anything else, maybe @ogra can help.

Cheers,

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I have just prepared a PR to improve this documentation a bit to make it a little clearer, here is the resulting README.md