Re: debci / salsa ci: support for qemu runner

[Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 09:37:35PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> For ci.d.n, the issue is not money, but the required work to integrate it
> into the infrastructure. We need volunteers (or pay people to do the work),
> but unless they can and want to figure out everything from source [1], the
> bottleneck remains that the current volunteers would need to help those
> people understand the setup and guide them coming up with good solutions.

I second this on another level. While the lxc backend is exercised very
often, the qemu backend evidently experiences rare use. The default
--ram-size is 1G and that happens to be too little for a number of
packages already. This soon will be configurable (#1037245). I expect
that there are more aspects where qemu and lxc differ in a way that
causes test failures as most of the existing tests only ever ran on lxc.
Some of these aspects will have to be fixed in tests, but others (like
the --ram-size) will need addressing in infrastructure. Please expect
more work in this area.

Helmut