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Hi I was not aware of the 
Plugin tar installer but it would not have been usefully in my case as 
I needed to build from specific git commit id not release tars.

For my use case I also need the ability to apply patches automatically to evaluate change
To qemu and Libvirt before they are merged upstream.

It would be good to see if we could combine the two though to duplicate
Code to build and install Libvirt and qemu.

If there is no object I think it still makes sense to create a 
openstack/devstack-plugin-libvirt-qemu repo then as the devstack-plugin-tar-installer
expcitly will be using tar files not git repos.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michele Paolino [mailto:m.paolino at virtualopensystems.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2016 1:40 PM
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Cc: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart at redhat.com>;
> mzoeller at linux.vnet.ibm.com; Mooney, Sean K <sean.k.mooney at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [devstack] libvirt/qemu source install
> plugin.
> 
> All,
> 
> the purpose of the devstack-plugin-tar-installer[1] is exactly what you
> mentioned: a tool needed to test experimental features in libvirt and
> qemu. I am planning to release a new version next week, addressing some
> of the comments received, however new testers/developers are more than
> welcome! Sean, maybe you can have a look at the code and, if you are
> interested, we can discuss how to proceed further.
> 
> I also think it would be nice if we can join all together the efforts
> on this project[2], as I believe this is an interesting feature for
> devstack. Maybe there is also a way to integrate this work with the
> gate Markus was mentioning.
> 
> Thank you Kashyap for pointing this out!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> [1]https://review.openstack.org/#/c/313568/
> [2]https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack/devstack-plugin-
> tar-installer
> 
> On 07/26/2016 01:13 PM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 02:25:46PM +0200, Markus Zoeller wrote:
> >> On 20.07.2016 22:38, Mooney, Sean K wrote:
> >>> Hi
> >>> I recently had the need to test a feature (vhost-user reconnect)
> >>> that was commit to the qemu source tree a few weeks ago. As there
> >>> has been no release since then I needed to build from source so to
> >>> that end I wrote a small devstack plugin to do just that.
> >>>
> >>> I was thinking of opening a review to create a new repo to host the
> >>> plugin under The openstack namespace
> >>> (openstack/devstack-plugin-libvirt-qemu) but before I do I wanted
> to
> >>> ask if others are interested In a devstack plugin that just
> compiles
> >>> and installs qemu and Libvirt?
> >>>
> >>> Regards Sean.
> >>>
> >> tonby and I try to make the devstack plugin "additional package
> repos"
> >> (apr) work [1]. What you did is within the scope of that project. We
> >> also have an experimental job
> >> "gate-tempest-dsvm-nova-libvirt-kvm-apr"[2].  The last time I worked
> >> on this I wasn't able to create installable *.deb packages from
> >> libvirt + qemu source code. Other work items did then get more
> >> important and I had to pause the work on that.  I think we can work
> >> together to combine our efforts there.
> > NB: There's also in-progress work to allow configuring libvirt / QEMU
> > from source tar balls, as an external DevStack plugin:
> >
> >      https://review.openstack.org/#/c/313568/ -- Plugin to setup
> >      libvirt/QEMU from tar releases
> >
> > It was originally proposed (now abandoned, in favour of the above) as
> > a patch to DevStack proper, but was abandoned, as it was suggested to
> > make it as external plugin:
> >
> >      https://review.openstack.org/#/c/108714/
> >
> >> References:
> >> [1]
> >> https://github.com/openstack/devstack-plugin-additional-pkg-repos/
> >> [2]
> >> https://github.com/openstack-infra/project-
> config/blob/master/jenkins
> >> /jobs/devstack-gate.yaml#L565-L595
> >>
> 
> --
> Michele Paolino