Re: QEMU's Haiku CI image

[Thomas Huth]

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 And I had to discover that this is completely out of date.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
> > > 20220216154208.2985103-1-kallisti5@unixzen.com/">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