android x86 running on OpenStack for CBIT

[Ross Beazley]

We are spinning up instances of android-x86 on our OpenStack deployment to use for running tests in our Jenkins CBIT pipeline.

Its glorious, thanks!

We would have had to include modules for the disk controller OpenStack uses to run them directly off the deployments storage.

Instead we have modified the bootable ISO to include a tar of a preconfigured android data partition. We untar this into a tmpfs mounted at data. We achieved this my dropping on a customised initrd that did the mount and untar.

It didn't appear possible to do this using the existing mount scripts included, they all resulted in a read only data partition.

We like this solution as its easy to return to a know state for running tests.

Can anyone advise if there was an alternative way to get a preconfigured bootable iso with writable data partition?

Thanks a lot

Ross

[Chih-Wei Huang]

I think you should add stuff into the system partition.
But if you really have to add them to the data partition,
your solution sounds ok to me.

Another approach is the OverlayFS
which is available since kernel 3.18.

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