[PATCH v2 04/10] tests/vm: use 'cp' instead of 'ln' for temporary vm images

John Snow posted 10 patches 3 years, 7 months ago
Maintainers: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>, "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>, "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>, Beraldo Leal <bleal@redhat.com>
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[PATCH v2 04/10] tests/vm: use 'cp' instead of 'ln' for temporary vm images
Posted by John Snow 3 years, 7 months ago
If the initial setup fails, you've permanently altered the state of the
downloaded image in an unknowable way. Use 'cp' like our other test
setup scripts do.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
 tests/vm/centos | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tests/vm/centos b/tests/vm/centos
index 5c7bc1c1a9a..be4f6ff2f14 100755
--- a/tests/vm/centos
+++ b/tests/vm/centos
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ class CentosVM(basevm.BaseVM):
     def build_image(self, img):
         cimg = self._download_with_cache("https://cloud.centos.org/centos/8/x86_64/images/CentOS-8-GenericCloud-8.3.2011-20201204.2.x86_64.qcow2")
         img_tmp = img + ".tmp"
-        subprocess.check_call(["ln", "-f", cimg, img_tmp])
+        subprocess.check_call(['cp', '-f', cimg, img_tmp])
         self.exec_qemu_img("resize", img_tmp, "50G")
         self.boot(img_tmp, extra_args = ["-cdrom", self.gen_cloud_init_iso()])
         self.wait_ssh()
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