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Ignore every vmtest state directory, not only the default one VM_STATE is a documented knob and a run pointed elsewhere writes the same qcow2 targets and firmware vars there. Keeping a second machine beside the first is how the USB gate's bench tests were run: one target with the hardware under test and one without.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WFBzMprSmNCfvdj2cGZyka

Author: Max Johnson <me@maxj.phd> · 2026-09-08 19:45 UTC

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Commit: c41f27f672ddae6ebe8709dca9a45167197ff06f

Parent: c9debbb

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M .gitignore +5 -1

			@@ -57,7 +57,11 @@
57	57		credentials.json
58	58
59	59		# vmtest scratch: qcow2 targets, firmware vars, vTPM state, screendumps.
60		-	/build/vmtest/state/
	60	+	# The glob rather than the one directory, because `VM_STATE` is a documented
	61	+	# knob and a run that points it elsewhere writes the same things there. A
	62	+	# second machine kept beside the first is how the USB gate's bench tests were
	63	+	# run: one target with the hardware under test, one without.
	64	+	/build/vmtest/state*/
61	65
62	66		# layertest scratch: RPMs, the generated repo, the target disk, firmware vars.
63	67		/build/layertest/state/