What to test? Where to get what to test? Where to report testing results?

Insurgo · October 17, 2022, 4:38pm

Xen + xmm-xen fixes to test (suspend/resume fixes, directio loopback devices, sys-usb fails to start, slowness vs bare metal)

Progressing into testing my debian-11 template.
For safe measure, from dom0:
qvm-clone debian-11 debian-11-before-xmm-xen

Then in debian-11, following instructions from How to install software | Qubes OS

sudo apt update && sudo apt update
uncomment /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qubes-r4.list testing repo line:

 # Qubes updates candidates repository
deb [arch=amd64] http://HTTPS///deb.qubes-os.org/r4.1/vm bullseye-testing main

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

The following packages will be upgraded:
  qubes-input-proxy-sender qubes-vm-dependencies qubes-vm-recommended xen-utils-guest
4 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 48.4 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://HTTPS///deb.qubes-os.org/r4.1/vm bullseye-testing/main amd64 qubes-input-proxy-sender amd64 1.0.28-1+deb11u1 [11.7 kB]
Get:2 http://HTTPS///deb.qubes-os.org/r4.1/vm bullseye-testing/main amd64 xen-utils-guest amd64 4.14.5-9+deb11u1 [29.5 kB]
Get:3 http://HTTPS///deb.qubes-os.org/r4.1/vm bullseye-testing/main amd64 qubes-vm-dependencies amd64 4.1.21-1+deb11u1 [3,516 B]
Get:4 http://HTTPS///deb.qubes-os.org/r4.1/vm bullseye-testing/main amd64 qubes-vm-recommended amd64 4.1.21-1+deb11u1 [3,636 B]

comment back the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qubes-r4.list testing repo lines:

# Qubes updates candidates repository
#deb [arch=amd64] http://HTTPS///deb.qubes-os.org/r4.1/vm bullseye-testing main
#deb-src http://HTTPS///deb.qubes-os.org/r4.1/vm bullseye-testing main

shutdown template and start app vm depending on it to test on daily use.

@marmarek :
It is not clear to me the link between current-testing notes for bullseye here under vmm-xen v4.14.5-9 (r4.1) · Issue #3084 · QubesOS/updates-status · GitHub
Package for bullseye was built ([build log](https://github.com/QubesOS/build-logs/tree/master/build-debian4/log_2022-10-16_01-33-06)) and uploaded to current-testing repository

And the packages qubes-input-proxy-sender qubes-vm-dependencies qubes-vm-recommended xen-utils-guest that were update candidates with bullseye-testing uncommented, applied on other post for testing.

If it is unclear to me, this is most probably unclear as well for the testing community as well.

Can you elaborate on the meaning of vmm-xen v4.14.5-9 (r4.1) · Issue #3084 · QubesOS/updates-status · GitHub ?

Thanks

Edit: added cross-reference here: vmm-xen v4.14.5-9 (r4.1) · Issue #3084 · QubesOS/updates-status · GitHub