Re: Getting rid of the last bits of QEMU's 'ad-hoc CI' for merges

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 16 May 2022 at 15:30, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 16/05/2022 14.43, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > For the BSDs, the ad-hoc CI is just running the tests/vm
> > "make vm-build-netbsd" etc. Is there some way we can get
> > coverage of this into the gitlab CI setup? (I think we
> > have FreeBSD via Cirrus CI, so I have not listed that one.)
>
> A simple setup is already there, running NetBSD and OpenBSD via KVM on the
> Cirrus-CI, see e.g.:
>
>   https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu/-/jobs/2411943817#L1973
>
> Caveats:
> - The jobs are currently marked as "manual only" since the double
>    indirect setup (via cirrus-run and KVM) is not that reliable.
>    Also we can not run that many cirrus-ci jobs in parallel, so
>    we likely don't want to enable these by default.
> - Compilation is not very fast, the jobs often run longer than
>    1h, though the --target-list is very short already.
>
> Anyway, this should show that running NetBSD and OpenBSD is very well
> possible in our CI - we just need a more powerful x86 host with KVM enabled
> for this.

Yes, if we have an x86 machine we can use as a private CI runner
for these jobs that would work.

-- PMM