Paste text on VNC terminal
Posted on March 21, 2024
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| phoenix
A coworker recently faced the problem to copy&pasting a large amount of text into a VNC terminal for openQA. VNC doesn’t always allow copy&paste and when you have to manually type a longer string this is prone to typos and human error.
[Read More]Upgrade a PostgreSQL container to a new major version
Posted on November 23, 2023
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| phoenix
PostgreSQL is a capable and mature database, which comes in a major or minor version number (e.g. 16.0). Minor releases never change the internal storage, so the database always remains compatible with earlier and later minor releases.
[Read More]CLI: Check if there are jobs running
Posted on May 5, 2023
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| phoenix
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.
[Read More]openQA: Could not configure /dev/net/tun (tap3): Operation not permitted
Posted on March 13, 2023
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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.
[Read More]VM test cluster using JeOS/MinimalVM images
Posted on March 8, 2023
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| phoenix
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.
[Read More]Safely clone a job on a production instance
Posted on February 23, 2023
(Last modified on February 13, 2024)
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| phoenix
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.
[Read More]molecule and systemd and cgroupns
Posted on January 30, 2023
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| phoenix
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.
[Read More]Reviewing openQA jobs with openqa-revtui
Posted on January 27, 2023
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| phoenix
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.
[Read More]openQA: emulated aarch64 worker
Posted on October 4, 2022
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| phoenix
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).
[Read More]openqa: asset download request but no domains passlisted
Posted on July 14, 2022
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| phoenix
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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