vimto Upgrade github.com/u-root/u-root/pkg/qemu

Hi, first of all thanks for this really useful tool.

In https://github.com/u-root/u-root/ v0.12.0 they decided to remove the qemu package and use https://github.com/hugelgupf/vmtest instead, see https://github.com/u-root/u-root/pull/2828.

Do you have any plans to use this library? Otherwise vimto will always be stuck on github.com/u-root/u-root v0.11.0

Jun 14 '24 08:06 MarcWort

I’m glad you find it useful. vmtest seems to be pretty much the same thing as vimto, just with more features! Have you used it? Why do you prefer vimto?

I’m not super fussed about being on the old uroot package, the code use is minimal. I’ve been meaning to just rewrite the bits I need and drop the dependency outright.

Jun 14 '24 14:06 lmb

I learned about vimto from the cilium/ebpf CI pipeline, and wanted to keep my own bpf testing pipelines close to that, and also wanted to keep using the kernel images from cilium/ci-kernels, as they are nicely versioned.

Jun 14 '24 15:06 MarcWort

Let's keep the dependency as it is. If and when it doesn't work for us anymore we can rewrite it.

Jan 10 '25 11:01 lmb