docs/HACKING: add a note about how to grow the image
Yesterday, I spent more hours than I would like to admit debugging tests that was failing because the Fedora cloud base image has only 4 GB disk space. This commit adds a note for the future me.
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@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ To start a ephemeral virtual machine using this repository, run:
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`IMAGE` has to be a path to an cloud-init-enabled image matching the host
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`IMAGE` has to be a path to an cloud-init-enabled image matching the host
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operating system, because that's what the packages where built for above.
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operating system, because that's what the packages where built for above.
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Note that the Fedora/RHEL cloud images might be too small for some tests
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to pass. Run `qemu-img resize IMAGE 10G` to grow them, cloud-init's growpart
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module will grow the root partition automatically during boot.
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The second argument points to a directory from which cloud-init user-data is
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The second argument points to a directory from which cloud-init user-data is
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generated (see `tools/gen-user-data` for details). The one given above tries to
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generated (see `tools/gen-user-data` for details). The one given above tries to
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