Paste text on VNC terminal

 Posted on March 21, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  111 words  |  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]
openqa  tools  vnc 

CLI: Check if there are jobs running

 Posted on May 5, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  317 words  |  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  cli 

openQA: Could not configure /dev/net/tun (tap3): Operation not permitted

 Posted on March 13, 2023  |  1 minutes  |  113 words  |  phoenix

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]
openqa 

Safely clone a job on a production instance

 Posted on February 23, 2023  (Last modified on February 13, 2024)  |  2 minutes  |  335 words  |  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]
openqa 

Reviewing openQA jobs with openqa-revtui

 Posted on January 27, 2023  |  7 minutes  |  1330 words  |  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  tools  cli 

openQA: emulated aarch64 worker

 Posted on October 4, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  356 words  |  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 

openQA and dehydrated

 Posted on March 29, 2022  |  3 minutes  |  535 words  |  phoenix

In this blog post I’m gonna show you, how you can enable https for your openQA instance using dehydrated and the internal SUSE CA. The same procedure should also work for Let’s Encrypt. [Read More]
openQA  webui