PreTest - Pre-Release Portability Testing VMs

PreTest's goal is to provide pre-built virtual-machine images of Free-Software POSIX-compliant operating systems, ready for testing autotools-based programs.

Quick Start

Synopsis

# Download a VM image
wget http://files.housegordon.org/pretest/v0.1/freebsd111.build-ready.qcow2.xz
unxz freebsd111.build-ready.qcow2.xz

# Run the VM, serial console will use the current terminal
qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm -m 384 \
    -nographic -nodefaults -snapshot \
    -net user,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:1025-:22 \
    -net nic,model=virtio \
    -serial mon:stdio \
    -drive if=virtio,media=disk,index=0,file=freebsd111.build-ready.qcow2

Advanced Usage

Setup Details

For detailed setup information and usage examples see the manual.

Available Pre-Configured VM images

Debian 8.1, 7.6
Ubuntu 16.04, 15.04, 14.04
gNewSense 3.1 (~debian 6)
Trisquel 7 (~ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS), 6.0.1 (~ubuntu 12.04 LTS)
CentOS 7.0, 6.5
Fedora 24, 23, 22, 21, 20
OpenSUSE 42.1 (LEAP), 13.2, 13.1
OpenBSD 6.1, 6.0, 5.9, 5.8, 5.7, 5.6, 5.5
FreeBSD 11-p1, 10.3, 10.1, 10, 9.3
NetBSD 7.1, 7.0, 6.1.4
MirBSD 10
DilOS 1.3.7.18 (Illumous/OpenSolaris kernel with Debian user-space)
OpenIndiana 2017-05-02, 2015-03-30 ("Hipster"), 151a8 (Illumus/OpenSolaris system)
GNU Hurd 0.7, 0.6, 0.5 (Hurd Kernel with Debian user-space)
MINIX R 3.3.0
Debian/kFreeBSD Debian-8/kFreeBSD-10.1, Deb7/kFreeBSD9 (GNU userspace with FreeBSD kernel)
Alpine Linux 3.5.2, 3.4.6, 3.3.3 (Linux Kernel + musl-libc + busybox)

More information can be found in the downloads and Programs and Kernel versions pages.

Contact and Source code

Maintained by Assaf Gordon.

Home page: http://www.nongnu.org/pretest/

Source code available on Git repository

For bug-reports, suggestions, comments and patches, please send emails to pretest-users[at]nongnu.org .

To subscribe to the mailing list, visit: https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pretest-users

To view/search past discussions, visit: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/pretest-users

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