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Motivation¶

Our OSD openQA production workload for KVM@PowerNV was so far running in NUE2 which is not usable anymore or not right now, see #170041. We have grenache in PRG2. Can we run KVM workload on grenache-1, the first LPAR?

Acceptance criteria¶

• AC1: KVM@PowerNV OSD tests can run again (any host)
• AC2: We know if we can use grenache-1 as KVM@PowerNV host

Suggestions¶

• Setup temporary worker instance on grenache-1
• Preliminary tests from okurz with qemu-system-ppc64 --enable-kvm --nographic showed that likely we need qemu-system-ppc64 --enable-kvm --nographic -machine cap-ccf-assist=off -machine cap-fwnmi=off which we can probably incorporate into according worker settings
• Try to clone an openQA job and set additional QEMUMACHINE settings as necessary
• If possible then add multiple worker instances in https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-pillars-openqa/-/blob/master/openqa/workerconf.sls
• Monitor execution of scheduled production ppc64le OSD openQA jobs
• Based on results update neighboring tickets accordingly, e.g. #170041 and #169834 and #169564