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Include a generic b2c qemu facility

Benjamin Tissoires requested to merge bentiss/ci-templates:wip/b2c into master

boot2container provides a small intrd that can start a container on bare-metal or under qemu.

This MR aims at providing a smooth environment for people to use b2c under qemu on the fdo infra.

The advantage of b2c compared to the classic qemu template is that we don't need to create a specific image for it and embed the qemu image in the container. That means less disk usage for our registry and also speed up times for users (we don't need to start a full distro to run just a test suite).

This is currently a draft to, there are a few things missing while writing this MR:

CC: @mupuf so that you are aware and can provide ideas for enhancements :)

Note: @whot, I managed to get this working with hid-tools. The trick is that the container is already running in privileged mode from the initrd, and we need to tell podman to mount /dev in the container. This way, virtual devices are presented to the container. The other trick is to run systemd-udevd in the background in the container so we also get udev notifications.

Edited by Benjamin Tissoires

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