Re: [ANN] Containers to run Netdev CI tests locally

[Hangbin Liu <hangbin.liu@linux.dev>]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2026 at 10:33:18AM +0200, Matthieu Baerts wrote:
> Hi Hangbin,
> 
> On 04/09/2026 08:59, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> > Hi Matthieu,
> > 
> > On Thu, Sep 03, 2026 at 06:19:25PM +0200, Matthieu Baerts wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> TL;DR: containers are now available with all dependencies to easily
> >> execute all static, unit, and functional tests in an environment closed
> >> to the Netdev CI one:
> >>
> >> - https://github.com/orgs/linux-netdev/packages
> >>
> >> - https://github.com/linux-netdev/nipa/wiki/Running-Netdev-CI-tests-locally
> > 
> > Great! I've been struggling to set up the local NIPA docker. I'm following
> > the steps from your git commit description. Now this article saved me.
> 
> I'm glad it helped!
> 

From a user‑experience perspective, I think the static tests work well.
They display the check results clearly and save outputs to the result directory.

However, for selftests, I do not see any difference compared to running vng
directly on my local machine, i.e.

  vng -v --run . --user root -a mitigations=off --cpus 4 -- \
  	make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=net run_tests

Do you know how to make the result looks like the CI shows[1], that each test
has a separate log dir and shows stdout/stderr.

[1] https://netdev.bots.linux.dev/contest.html

Thanks
Hangbin