Re: Bootable GNOME images available

[Felipe Borges <felipeborges gnome org>]

Hi Tristan, thanks a lot for working on this. It is definitely going
to help our development efforts both in CI and design.

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 11:39 AM Tristan Van Berkom via
desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list gnome org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>     It's my pleasure to announce that we are now producing bootable
> images based on the very latest of GNOME modules as defined by the
> gnome-build-meta[1] (which we also use to build the releases and
> produce the GNOME flatpak runtime/sdk).
>
> At this time, the image is recreated every time the gitlab pipeline
> runs, and can be downloaded from gitlab here[2].

In GNOME Boxes we have the "Download an OS" feature that makes it
easier to obtain and install an OS. I would love to feature the GNOME
images there. For that, could we hotlink directly to [2]? Will this
link change?

https://fedoramagazine.org/download-os-gnome-boxes/

Also, could we include spice guest tools in the image? This way Boxes
could provide cool features such as "shared clipboard, automatic
resolution, shared folders, sent files via drag and drop, and many
more. My initial run of the image in Boxes showed that this adjustment
will be necessary if we want people to run the VMs in Boxes.

What is the best channel for us to discuss these things I mentioned above?

Once again, thanks for your efforts, it is much appreciated!

Cheers,
Felipe.

> The image comes with a simple launcher script for qemu, and should boot
> up to the gnome-initial-setup[3] tool automatically.
>
>
> Next steps
> ~~~~~~~~~~
> The current setup still leaves much to be desired, and we're hoping
> others will pitch in and help improve our CI story.
>
> The next big task ahead of us is to boot the image in CI and perform
> automated tests on it, most probably with openQA, you can follow that
> issue here[4].
>
> Of course there are many other things to accomplish:
>
>   * Allow atomic upgrades with ostree, which requires some system
>     integration work and also requires that we publish the builds in a
>     publicly hosted ostree repository.
>
>   * Currently we only build the image for 64bit intel, but we should
>     be able to boot for the 4 architectures we already support for the
>     GNOME Flatpak SDKs (i686, x86_64, armv7, aarch64).
>
>   * Improve system integration in general, ensure input methods are
>     working, online accounts are integrated properly, keyring unlocks
>     with user login, etc.
>
>   * Run installed tests as a part of the CI pipeline before wrapping
>     the image itself.
>
>   * The list goes on and on :)
>
>
> If you'd like to help out but need some pointers getting familiar with
> the gnome-build-meta project, feel free to ask Javier or myself, and
> other release team members should also be capable of pointing you in
> the right direction.
>
>
> Finally, thanks to everyone on the release team and also freedesktop-sdk
> project contributors who have helped immensely to get us this far !
>
> Cheers,
>     -Tristan
>
>
> [1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta
> [2]: 
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/-/jobs/artifacts/master/browse/image/?job=build-gnome-core-x86_64
> [3]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-initial-setup
> [4]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/issues/206
>
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