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

See downloads for available VMs.
See installed Programs and Kernel versions on each VM.
All VMs have user miles with password 12345 with passwordless sudo (or su) access.
root's password is also 12345.
NEW: use QEMU command-line builder or LibVirt command-line builder for easy usage.

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

QEMU Wrapper script

Use the pretest-run.pl script for easier bootstrap of the configured images:

# Download script
wget http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/pretest.git/plain/pretest-run.pl

# Start VM, connect to serial console
./pretest-run.pl --console freebsd111.build-ready.qcow2

# Start VM, connect through SSH
# (when logging off, VM will be automatically shutdown)
./pretest-run.pl freebsd111.build-ready.qcow2

See pretest-run.pl --help for more options.

LibVirt Usage - All VMs can be imported to LibVirt. See LibVirt manual page for details.
VirtualBox Usage - Most VMs can be imported to VirtualBox. See VirtualBox manual page for details.

Setup Details

clean-install images are snapshots of post-installation state.
- User 'miles' with password '12345', can sudo without password.
- User 'root' with password '12345' (or no password on MINIX,Hurd)
- SSH server runs on port 22, pretest-run.sh script redirects it to to host's port 2222 (or another port with -p)
- VMs are configured to use serial console, compatible with QEMU's -nographic and -serial mon:stdio options.
build-ready images are snapshots of post-build-tools installation state.
- Have C/C++ compilers (gcc or clang)
- Have autoconf,automake,make,libtool,gettext,flex,bison,git,wget,rsync (etc.)
- ready to compile autotools-based projects, such as:
```
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hello/hello-2.9.tar.gz
tar xzf hello-2.9.tar.gz
cd hello-2.9
./configure
make
make check
```
Compilers-pack image is Debian-based installation pre-configured with cross-compilers for ARM,MIPS,PowerPC and binfmt/qemu-static setup. See Compilers Pack usage manual page for details.
See downloads for available VMs.
See installed Programs and Kernel versions on each VM.

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

License

Shell/Perl scripts: GPLv3+
Cookbook Texinfo document: Dual License: CC-BY-SA 4.0, and GFDL 1.3+
Operation System Virtual Machine Images:
Each operating system use a mixture of Free-Software licenses.
Where an operating system offers non-free software options, those were removed. See the license for the relevant OSes:
- Debian: https://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/ (Only main repository used)
- Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/licensing (only main and universe repositories used)
- CentOS: GPL + others (link?)
- Fedora: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing
- Hurd: GPL + others (link?)
- MINIX: http://www.minix3.org/other/license.html
- DilOS: http://www.dilos.org/license
- OpenBSD: http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
- FreeBSD: https://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html
- NetBSD: http://www.netbsd.org/about/redistribution.html
- OpenSUSE: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:License
- Trisquel: http://trisquel.info/en/under-what-license-trisquel-distributed
- gNewSense: http://www.gnewsense.org/Licenses
- OpenIndiana: http://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1048863

If you spot a non-free software in those pre-build images, please send a bug report to pretest-users[at]nongnu.org.