[cip-dev] B@D on Windows 10

[robert.marshall@codethink.co.uk (Robert Marshall)]

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

Robert