On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 06:02:26AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > 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.
FWIW, the debci codebase has gained support for specifying a backend on a per-package basis, so we will be able to switch packages one by one, and only the ones that really need (and/or benefit from) running on QEMU.
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