Re: [PATCH] .gitlab-ci.d/cirrus: Remove the netbsd and openbsd jobs

[Thomas Huth]

On 26/04/2024 15.46, Eldon Stegall wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 02:47:20PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > With regards to NetBSD and OpenBSD, this is not a step backward since these
> > gitlab jobs were never run anyway (they could only be triggered manually,
> > but hardly anybody did that AFAIK).
> >
> > If we want to have proper support for those OSes, I think somebody would
> > need to set up a custom runner on a beefy KVM-capable server somewhere where
> > we could run the "make vm-build-*bsd" commands. By the way, are Eldon's CI
> > runners still around? IIRC they were capable of running KVM ?
>
> My datacenter had a power outage recently, so I disable my runner, and
> haven't prioritized bringing it back up until now. I am glad to get this
> going again, I'll look at it this weekend.

It's not for me to decide, but IMHO it would be a great possibility to run 
some additional KVM-based tests (like the vm-build-*bsd tests) in QEMU's CI!

> There should also be plenty of space to build *bsd VM's. Do pre-existing
> upstream BSD images have an nocloud support so that we can build from a
> stable updated base? Sorry I'm not super familiar with the BSD
> ecosystems, but happy to try to fill in the gaps.

QEMU's test suite comes with a handy way of doing tests on OpenBSD, NetBSD 
and FreeBSD: If you've got a KVM-capable Linux host, you just have to type 
"make vm-build-freebsd J=$(nproc)" to build and test the QEMU sources in a 
FreeBSD VM. It will automatically fetch and install a VM image for you.

 Thomas