[cip-dev] B@D on Windows 10

[agustin.benito@codethink.co.uk (Agustin Benito Bethencourt)]

Hi,

On 04/07/17 11:32, Robert Marshall wrote:
> Robert Marshall <robert.marshall@codethink.co.uk> writes:
>
>> The B at D development team has been investigating if there are any issues
>> with the use of the B at D VM on Windows. The ticket
>> https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/testing/issues/106
>> is being used to collect information and workarounds.
>>
>> Briefly the current issues/state is as follows:
>>
>> - We are using virtualbox rather than rsync for config.vm.synced_folder
>> - core.autocrlf=input is needed in the git settings for the scripts to
>>    run under Debian (and an ssh client either via git or another route)
>> - We need to look at a substitute for ser2net running on the host in
>>    order to open a connection from the VM to the BBB
>> - The VM installs and both the KernelCI webserver and Lava2 run
>> - Having built a kernel the build does not appear in the KernelCI web
>>    interface, there's a long delay before it times out
>> - Health checks can be created but they don't appear to run, the admin
>>    interface knows about the devices but they don't appear in
>>    Scheduler->All Devices
>>
>> This testing has been carried out directly from the pure Vagrant install
>> - once this is running the pre-loaded Vagrant box will also be tested.
>>
>> Further work is continuing to get B at D fully operational on a Windows 10 host.
>>
>
> To report on the progress since Friday:
>
> - KernelCI does not work with Microsoft Edge or Internet Explorer - we
>    recommend the use of firefox to display kernel build results - where
>    the KernelCI web interface does work.
> - The hostname in the VM is different when run from windows a MR
>    has been created to deal with both versions of this
> - The QEMU health check now runs on the W10 virtual machine
> - The BBB health check will run when connecting to a BBB attached to a
>    debian machine from the Windows VM both with the linaro kernel and a
>    locally built one

Can someone confirm the above results, please? Now that Robert is the 
only person working on the testing front, double checking his results by 
other companies/contributors becomes almost imperative.

Thank you Robert, good progress this week.

As usual, you can also meet us at #cip in freenode.

> - We are still in progress of creating and testing a local initiramfs
>    and configuring the FTDI connection correctly
>
>
> Robert
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