systemvmtemplate: experimental Debian 12.x systemvmtemplate

[yadvr]

Started this for experiment and to see what works/fails with Debian 12 based systemvmtemplate.

Types of changes

• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• Enhancement (improves an existing feature and functionality)
• Cleanup (Code refactoring and cleanup, that may add test cases)

Feature/Enhancement Scale or Bug Severity

Feature/Enhancement Scale

• Major
• Minor

[yadvr]

py3 is a clear issue, build fails with:

20:33:48 �[1;31m==> qemu: + apt-get --no-install-recommends -q -y install grub-legacy rsyslog logrotate cron net-tools ifupdown tmux vim-tiny htop netbase iptables nftables openssh-server e2fsprogs tcpdump iftop socat wget coreutils systemd python python3 python3-flask ieee-data bzip2 sed gawk diffutils grep gzip less tar telnet ftp rsync traceroute psmisc lsof procps inetutils-ping iputils-arping httping curl dnsutils zip unzip ethtool uuid file iproute2 acpid sudo sysstat apache2 ssl-cert dnsmasq dnsmasq-utils nfs-common samba-common cifs-utils xl2tpd bcrelay ppp tdb-tools xenstore-utils libxenstore3.0 ipvsadm conntrackd libnetfilter-conntrack3 keepalived irqbalance openjdk-11-jre-headless ipcalc ipset iptables-persistent libtcnative-1 libssl-dev libapr1-dev haproxy haveged radvd sharutils genisoimage strongswan libcharon-extra-plugins libstrongswan-extra-plugins strongswan-charon strongswan-starter virt-what open-vm-tools qemu-guest-agent hyperv-daemons cloud-guest-utils conntrack apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg gnupg-agent software-properties-common�[0m
20:33:48 �[0;32m    qemu: Reading package lists...�[0m
20:33:48 �[0;32m    qemu: Building dependency tree...�[0m
20:33:48 �[0;32m    qemu: Reading state information...�[0m
20:33:48 �[0;32m    qemu: Package python is not available, but is referred to by another package.�[0m
20:33:48 �[0;32m    qemu: This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or�[0m
20:33:48 �[0;32m    qemu: is only available from another source�[0m
20:33:48 �[0;32m    qemu: However the following packages replace it:�[0m
20:33:48 �[0;32m    qemu:   python-is-python3 2to3�[0m
20:33:48 �[0;32m    qemu:�[0m
20:33:48 �[1;31m==> qemu: E: Package 'python' has no installation candidate�[0m
20:33:48 �[1;32m==> qemu: Provisioning step had errors: Running the cleanup provisioner, if present...�[0m
20:33:48 �[1;32m==> qemu: Deleting output directory...�[0m
20:33:48 �[1;31mBuild 'qemu' errored after 7 minutes 47 seconds: Script exited with non-zero exit status: 100. Allowed exit codes are: [0]�[0m
20:33:48 

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Codecov Report

Merging #7683 (4363d10) into main (409e320) will decrease coverage by 0.01%.
The diff coverage is n/a.

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[yadvr]

Due to scope of missing packages, lack of support for JRE 11 and python2; the task to use a Debian 12 based systemvmtemplate would be much bigger than I thought. We should do this as part of 4.20+ (Debian 11 still will be supported for another 2-3 years).

[yadvr]

Migration of VR codebase to py3 should require us to completely get rid of netaddr/py2

[yadvr]

Closing this as we've #7686 to track, we need to revisit this in future (4.20/4.21+) but no urgency as Debian 11 LTS is supported at least another 2-3 years.