Den 2017-07-16 kl. 21:11, skrev Alan Somers: > On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Panagiotes Mousikides > <paggas1_at_yandex.com> wrote: >> Hello everybody! >> >> I am working on adding tests to the FreeBSD test suite for testing pf, the >> network packet filter. >> >> These tests need at least two machines running and connected to each other, >> with one machine generating network traffic and the other running pf and >> filtering the traffic. I am looking for a way to fire off a bhyve instance >> to serve as the second machine, the first being the actual machine I am >> running the tests on. This should be done completely automatically, with >> scripts to configure all network interfaces and to preferably also set up an >> SSH server on the bhyve instance. >> >> This bhyve instance could start off as running the latest stable version of >> FreeBSD, or it could be configured to run a snapshot of the development >> tree. The aim is to have the desired version of FreeBSD that we want to >> test running on it. Ideally this would be done in such a way that we can >> reuse the machine for further tests, instead of rebuilding everything from >> scratch for each test. >> >> What I am looking for is the best way to do this, preferably so that it can >> be easily integrated into the CI work being done at Jenkins. What do you >> think? Any input is welcome! >> >> All the best, >> Panagiotes > It's possible to setup CI systems that involve multiple machines > networked together. I've done it. But it's complicated, fragile, and > slow. I advise you to consider very carefully whether you truly need > multiple VMs. What about creating an epair(4)? You could run pf on > epair0b and generate traffic from epair0a. That would be faster than > spinning up VMs, and would be very easy to integrate into any other CI > system. Would that work? > > -Alan > Hi Alan! Thank you for the tip about epair(4), it sounds really like an interesting approach to my problem. I will look into it! Best regards, PanagiotesReceived on Mon Jul 17 2017 - 22:56:00 UTC
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