On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:42:56PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hey Antonio, > > Antonio Terceiro [2016-09-21 14:20 -0300]: > > the fact that Ubuntu runs tests on KVM and we run on LXC makes all the > > difference. > > > > however making the package have their tests executed is trivial; what's > > not trivial will be moving to KVM so that their tests have any chance of > > working. > > Do you have enough EC2 quota to run tests in (ephemeral) nova > instances? In Ubuntu we do that, i. e. I have a permanent "controller" > instance that has the cloud credentials and an autopkgtest checkout, > and worker instances [1] which take AMQP test requests and call autopkgtest > with > the ssh runner and the "nova" setup script [2] -- i. e. the actual > test is being run in an ephemeral instance, with full > "isolation-machine"/KVM capabilities like mucking around with kernel > stuff.
Sure that's doable, as is moving to a simple "KVM on localhost"; it is just a matter of doing the work.
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