QA » openQA Project

I've been trying to run a real svirt/VMWare test locally. Unfortunately I've set the wrong password. Seems like that were too many login attempts via SSH with the wrong password. At least I now cannot login anymore, not even via the web app on https://vh002.qa2.suse.asia (using credentials from https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/100688#note-25).

Could someone reset the password? Maybe something like faillock --user … --reset would help.

mkittler wrote:

Draft to configure VNC over WebSockets usage via test distribution: https://github.com/Martchus/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse/pull/new/svirt-vmware-vnc-cfg
Maybe it makes more sense to configure this "under the hood" within backend code, though.

You can consider the test distribution the "rapid prototyping" platform for os-autoinst for now :)

Updated https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst/pull/2091, see additional commit

I've now managed to test this with a real job but I've ran into

error: internal error: HTTP response code 500 for call to 'RegisterVM_Task'. Fault: ServerFaultCode - Current license or ESXi version prohibits execution of the requested operation.

so I've resorted to use https://openqaw8-vmware.qa.suse.de where I've got one step further:

[2022-07-12T12:32:04.055634+02:00] [info] ::: basetest::runtest: # Test died: VMWare web socket URL request failed: The object 'vim.VirtualMachine:10' has already been deleted or has not been completely created

So I looks like I need to implement a retry after errors like this because likely it is just the "or has not been completely created" part.

I will also extend the svrit backend documentation to explain how I set things up.

One step further, now the auth fails (despite correct credentials):

[2022-07-12T14:14:13.360057+02:00] [debug] VMWare web socket URL request failed: The object 'vim.VirtualMachine:10' has already been deleted or has not been completely created, trying 11 more times
[2022-07-12T14:14:22.379136+02:00] [debug] VMWare auth request failed: Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password., trying 10 more times
[2022-07-12T14:14:32.397369+02:00] [debug] VMWare auth request failed: Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password., trying 9 more times

Looks like the auth issue is because one is already logged in at this point and cannot login again, see VMWare's event log:

Benutzer kann sich nicht anmelden, weil er bereits angemeldet ist   Dienstag, 12. Juli 2022, 16:41:53 +0200 Info    Keine
Benutzer root@10.163.28.162 als Mojolicious (Perl) angemeldet   Dienstag, 12. Juli 2022, 16:41:48 +0200 Info    Keine

So I'm either clever about reusing a session or just change the user agent (one can apparently login multiple times with different user agents).

Clearing the cookies is sufficient to get past the auth error. And The object 'vim.VirtualMachine:10' has already been deleted was because the VM-ID was wrong. However, now I'm maybe as far as it gets with https://openqaw8-vmware.qa.suse.de because creating a VNC over WebSockets "ticket" like on https://vh002.qa2.suse.asia (which already has the newer version) doesn't work.

At any time feel welcome to ask users to test themselves

• The license problem has been resolved.
• I've been able to get a VNC image within an openQA test (see videos on https://w3.suse.de/~mkittler/vnc-over-ws). The needle bootloader_svirt-vmware_bios_frontpage-20190306 isn't matching in my setup so the test fails quite early, though.
• So I've been updating the PR, see its updated description: https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst/pull/2091#issue-1274995579=

Now the changes to use VNC over WebSockets have been merged. It should fulfill all acceptance criteria. To use it, one still needs to set the test variable VMWARE_VNC_OVER_WS=1 (and possibly VMWARE_VNC_OVER_WS_INSECURE=1). I've mentioned that in #eng-testing and will hopefully get some feedback.