Re: OSUOSL in trouble

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, May 01, 2025 at 06:20:50PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il gio 1 mag 2025, 17:51 Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> ha
> scritto:
> 
> > > Paolo, please let me know how I can help with migrating VMs or setting
> > up a
> > > CI Kubernetes cluster on Amazon.
> >
> 
> Since in the past Camilla did it but I am not sure if she has bandwidth,
> let's run it with Red Hat first. All I did was give her admin privileges on
> Azure.
> 
> In the meanwhile I will start migrating the VMs.
> 
> Please ensure the any new CI machines for gitlab have persistent cache
> > enabled. Our functional test jobs are still downloading images on every
> > run due to lack of configured cache, which makes them unreliable when
> > sites have transient outages, as well as making jobs slower.
> >
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion—just to be clear do the Azure runners have that?

I'm unclear - what I can say is that whatever runners are currently
being used always appear to start with an empty cache, as in the log:

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/9853814057

We see countless messages

  Downloading http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/misc/ftp.software.ibm.com/rs6000/firmware/7020-40p/P12H0456.IMG to /builds/qemu-project/qemu/functional-cache/download/d957f79c73f760d1455d2286fcd901ed6d06167320eb73511b478a939be25b3f...

and in both the restore/save of cache gitlab reports:

   "No URL provided, cache will not be uploaded to shared cache server.
    Cache will be stored only locally. "

which makes me think, if there is a cache, then it is local to the
build env and getting thrown away at the end of the job

With regards,
Daniel
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