Sean,

I agree a r/w file system with simple access from host and QEMU is a much better choice. When Laszlo gets some time, I would be interested in his recommendations. My negative experience was from a Windows host. Perhaps that are must better virtual disk tools from a Linux host.

Mike

From: sean.brogan via [] <sean.brogan=microsoft.com@[]>
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 2:42 PM
To: Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; devel@edk2.groups.io
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH] .azurepipelines: Enable CI for OvmfPkg and EmulatorPkg

@Rebecca - Agree.  I need to package up a newer version.  I have treated this as lower priority.  Is there a feature you need or just best practices on keeping current? 
@Ard - Padding in python is easy.  I just need to understand the requirements. 
@Mike - I would like to get to read/write filesystem for Target based tests so that we don't have to reinvent yet another way to collect results (especially one as error prone as sniffing logs).  But lets get basic CI with read-only functionality working and checked in first.  As it looks like in the last 8 hours another breaking change has been checked in.  After rebase to top of edk2 master. 

NFO - "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.24.28314\bin\Hostx86\x64\link.exe" /OUT:d:\a\1\s\Build\Ovmf3264\RELEASE_VS2019\X64\OvmfPkg\QemuKernelLoaderFsDxe\QemuKernelLoaderFsDxe\DEBUG\QemuKernelLoaderFsDxe.dll /NOLOGO /NODEFAULTLIB /IGNORE:4001 /IGNORE:4281 /IGNORE:4254 /OPT:REF /OPT:ICF=10 /MAP /ALIGN:32 /SECTION:.xdata,D /SECTION:.pdata,D /Machine:X64 /LTCG /DLL /ENTRY:_ModuleEntryPoint /SUBSYSTEM:EFI_BOOT_SERVICE_DRIVER /SAFESEH:NO /BASE:0 /DRIVER /MERGE:.rdata=.data  @d:\a\1\s\Build\Ovmf3264\RELEASE_VS2019\X64\OvmfPkg\QemuKernelLoaderFsDxe\QemuKernelLoaderFsDxe\OUTPUT\static_library_files.lst

INFO - PvScsi.c

INFO - Generating code

INFO - d:\a\1\s\OvmfPkg\PvScsiDxe\PvScsi.c(459): error C2220: the following warning is treated as an error

INFO - d:\a\1\s\OvmfPkg\PvScsiDxe\PvScsi.c(459): warning C4244: '=': conversion from 'const UINT16' to 'UINT8', possible loss of data

INFO - Finished generating code

INFO - NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.24.28314\bin\Hostx86\x64\cl.exe"' : return code '0x2'

INFO - Stop.

INFO - "GenFw" -e DXE_DRIVER -o d:\a\1\s\Build\Ovmf3264\RELEASE_VS2019\X64\OvmfPkg\QemuKernelLoaderFsDxe\QemuKernelLoaderFsDxe\OUTPUT\QemuKernelLoaderFsDxe.efi d:\a\1\s\Build\Ovmf3264\RELEASE_VS2019\X64\OvmfPkg\QemuKernelLoaderFsDxe\QemuKernelLoaderFsDxe\DEBUG\QemuKernelLoaderFsDxe.dll

INFO - 

INFO - 

INFO - build.py...

INFO -  : error 7000: Failed to execute command

INFO - C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.24.28314\bin\Hostx86\x86\nmake.exe /nologo tbuild [d:\a\1\s\Build\Ovmf3264\RELEASE_VS2019\X64\OvmfPkg\PvScsiDxe\PvScsiDxe]

INFO - 

INFO - 

INFO - build.py...

INFO -  : error F002: Failed to build module

INFO - d:\a\1\s\OvmfPkg\PvScsiDxe\PvScsiDxe.inf [X64, VS2019, RELEASE]

INFO - 

INFO - - Failed -