CLI: Check if there are jobs running
I recently automated the installation of updates on my openQA development instance. The goal was to make the instance updates itself over night, but only if it is idle, i.
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openQA: Could not configure /dev/net/tun (tap3): Operation not permitted
I recently encountered a new interesting openQA issue:
[2023-03-13T14:18:22.651705+01:00] [warn] [pid:18929] !!! : qemu-system-x86_64: -netdev tap,id=qanet0,ifname=tap3,script=no,downscript=no: could not configure /dev/net/tun (tap3): Operation not permitted This is an error that you likely are encountering on a older openQA instance, after you setup multimachine jobs but haven’t used them in a while.
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VM test cluster using JeOS/MinimalVM images
JeOS (Just enough OS) or MinimalVM images are minimal VM images (duh!) that can be used to quickly deploy VMs. Instead of a installation you only need to go through a first boot setup.
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Safely clone a job on a production instance
When developing new openQA tests you will have to run a lot of verification and debug test runs. This is why I typically encourage people to do all openQA testing on their own instances, to prevent spamming of the production instances.
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molecule and systemd and cgroupns
It’s Hackweek and I’m back at working on the GeekOops project. One of the more annoying tasks that I have been postponing already since some time is to adjust the molecule workflow to work with cgroups 2.
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Reviewing openQA jobs with openqa-revtui
The openqa-revtui tool is a neat CLI utility for helping you review openQA jobs and job groups. It is part of the openqa-mon project, which has grown in the last years and now consists on more than the job monitoring tool itself.
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openQA: emulated aarch64 worker
Are you in dire need of an aarch64 worker on your own openQA instance, but no suitable hardware lying around? If speed is not your main concern, then don’t worry - you can just enable a qemu-emulated aarch64 worker on your openQA instance (probably x86_64).
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openqa: asset download request but no domains passlisted
Symptom
When posting a job using , you see an error message of the following kind:
$ openqa-cli api -X POST isos ... 403 Forbidden Asset download requested but no domains passlisted!
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molecule test: failed to connect to bus in systemd container
Ansible Molecule is a project to help you test your ansible roles. I’m using molecule for automatically testing the ansible roles of geekoops.
So, while hacking on the geekoops roles, molecule test was complaining on my Tumbleweed machine:
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BCI test tutorial
Base Container Images (BCI) are a SUSE offer for a variety of container images suitable for building custom applications atop of the SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE).
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