Inspect images/volumes with no partition table
Summary
As a cloudigrade user having images that lack a partition table, I want houndigrade to mount and inspect its contents. We have found that some images (namely the i386 ones @pakamble found and used) aren't partitioned as we expect.
Acceptance Criteria
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Verify that Parag's i386 image goes through the usual inspection process. -
Verify more generally that images without partition tables are inspected. -
Verify houndigrade-test-data includes at least one new image without a partition table like this if this is possible with the way we use loop devices. -
Verify another story exists to automate the process for building images and putting them into AWS maybe based on the contents of houndigrade-test-data or something similar. This should be an active conversation between devs and QEs. - Be sure to include the new issue here as a "related to" reference.
Assumptions and Questions
- How do create these? Were we just lucky/unlucky to find one like this? Put some notes somewhere to explain how we can do this for future reproduction reference. Likely this means:
- create a VM in VirtualBox
- export an OVA file of the new created disk
- upload to S3 and follow Amazon's instructions for conversion
- TODO paste the link to Amazon's instructions
- TODO dig up the notes from Slack around https://ansible.slack.com/archives/C8VGAPJNN/p1599576540307000 and paste/summarize them here
Edited by Brad Smith