Re: QEMU's Haiku CI image

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 16/02/2022 18.16, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 16/2/22 17:32, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> On 16/02/2022 16.52, Alexander von Gluck IV wrote:
>>> February 16, 2022 6:31 AM, "Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> while researching the different "sed" options on our supported build 
>>>> platform today, I started
>>>> "make vm-build-haiku.x86_64" in my QEMU build directory for the first 
>>>> time since many months again.
>>>> And I had to discover that this is completely out of date. The image 
>>>> does not contain any version
>>>> of Python 3 yet which we require for compilation since more than a year 
>>>> now already, and the Haiku
>>>> version in there seems to be too old to do a "pkgman install -y python3" 
>>>> ... so this has been
>>>> completely been bitrotting since more than a year now. Is anybody still 
>>>> interested in keeping the
>>>> Haiku support in QEMU? If so, please help to get the VM image updated. 
>>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> I submitted
>>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/qemu-devel/patch/20220216154208.2985103-1-kallisti5@unixzen.com/ 
>>>
>>> to fix this issue.  The build runs as expected after that patchset.
>>>
>>> Likely cause is us no longer packing a "python" binary, deferring to 
>>> "python2" vs "python3"
>>>
>>> I'm still the most likely maintainer.  Are there still plans to automate 
>>> the tests for Haiku to
>>> prevent this from happening again in the future?
>>
>> AFAIK we still don't have a machine where we could properly run VM-based 
>> tests in the CI, do we? Peter? Cleber?
> 
> We still have unused fosshost.org resources. What we don't have is a
> sysadmin willing to install the VM and maintain it over time.

I thought that one does not have KVM enabled?

  Thomas