Re: Cirrus CI about to shut down

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 11:04:40AM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On 12/04/2026 16.28, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2026, 08:45 Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com
>> >> <mailto:thuth@redhat.com>> wrote:
>> >>        Hi,
>> >>     according to https://cirruslabs.org/ <https://cirruslabs.org/> :
>> >>        Cirrus CI will shut down effective Monday, June 1, 2026.
>> >>     I guess that means we have to find an alternative for doing the
>> >> builds on
>> >>     macOS and FreeBSD?
>> >> It may be possible to use QEMU's AWS hosting where we already run
>> >> Linux x86-64 private runners. EC2 can run FreeBSD and Mac instances.
>> >> Sponsorship is on an annual basis though and it would be a shame to
>> >> redo the setup work once AWS sponsorship ends.
>> >> If we decide to use AWS then I can help provide access.
>> >
>> > It seems like gitlab.com also at least features macos runners nowadays:
>> >
>> >  https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/runners/hosted_runners/macos/
>> >
>> > ... however, they are limited to Premium & Ultimate tiers, so the
>> > normal developer cannot use these anymore.
>> >
>> > But since QEMU is part of the "GitLab for Open Source" program, maybe
>> > at least the qemu-project can use these? ... It would be great if one
>> > of the qemu-project Maintainers or Owners could check this! (I only
>> > have the "Reporter" role in the project, so I cannot help here)
>> 
>> Probably - I can have a look and try it out.
>> 
>> Not sure what to do about FreeBSD though. Ideally we want hosted runners
>> so we can exercise the hypervisor (ditto Windows x86 and Arm).
>
> For the various BSDs we have  VMs for QEMU builds, which (in
> theory) we could run from regular gitlab Linux jobs. Running them
> with TCG is rather unpleasant though. Do our private upstream
> runners have nested-virt available to let us use KVM ?

We don't have any custom x86 runners, I have no idea about the cloud
ones that serve the bulk of the CI jobs. I assume the AWS EKS machine
wouldn't by default.

>
>
> With regards,
> Daniel

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro