On Mon, 16 May 2022 at 15:30, Thomas Huth <th...@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
