action #68708
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coordination #66394: [epic][y] Enable VNC+SSH Installations on aarch64
[functional][y] Generate support_server image for SLES on aarch64
Added by riafarov almost 4 years ago.
Updated over 3 years ago.
Description
openQA doesn't support cross-platform MM tests, so we cannot use 64bit support server.
See parent ticket for motivation.
Some hints for SLES image generation:
https://gitlab.suse.de/hsehic/qa-css-docs/blob/master/openqa/README.md#creating-a-supportserver-image
64bit jobs using support server: https://openqa.suse.de/tests/4428137 and https://openqa.suse.de/tests/4428135
Acceptance criteria¶
- support_server image generation is trivial in case we need update or image for other architectures
- support_server image provides all functionality for multimachine ssh and vnc remote installations on aarch64
Hints¶
So from the previous ticket (#9576) some points for image generation on TW:
- Get latest qcow2 from TW/SLES create_hdd_gnome
- Install pattern dhcp_dns_server
- Switch from Network Manager to Wicked
- Disable firewall
- To avoid dimming of the screen, turn off gnome screensaver gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay 0 and turn off gnome suspend gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-type 'nothing'
- In job conf delete QEMUVGA and use VIRTIO_CONSOLE=1
- Description updated (diff)
- Status changed from New to Workable
- Estimated time set to 8.00 h
- Status changed from Workable to In Progress
- Assignee set to ybonatakis
- Status changed from In Progress to Feedback
I provide a script in the PR that use autoyast to generate the supportserver. i expect this will make it easier in the future to generate a qcow for aarch and x86_64. We need to edit the script for other archs.
I tried to verify that this would work with the remote_ssh but apparently the test needs adjustment. i created https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/69142. i have modified the yaml to use the bootloader_start module but uefi+MM does not work because of missing parameters.
We (with @joaquin) test the qcow in the remote ssh. The results here. I used Full media as i had network issues on the target machine in the Online media.
However i expect the qcow to be suitable for remote_vnc as well. If not, we can easily regenerate an image with the provided xml or use the script with another xml to get another qcow if we want.
The supportserver is using SLE15-SP2 as base image (GMC)
- Status changed from Feedback to In Progress
Notes from experiments we wanted to explore:
The alternative is to use create_hdd_gnome adding one module that already exists to do the configuration. The image that it is created by this job contains all the necessary patters(base minimal_base x11 x11_enhanced and gnome_basic). So nothing to do with it.
Although we need to install some packages
apache2 tftp dhcp-server bind yast2-iscsi-lio-server xrdp
openssh, nfs-client is already installed.
I was thinking if you could provide them with test_data or some other way but for now i have defined it as a list in the module.
wicked is used and i use setup_static_mm_network to ensure that.
there is no requirement to disable the firewall for MM test so it remains enabled.
remote_ssh seems to be able to boot and connect.
remote_vnc can also boot but i havent test the connectivity so far. I dont know why we use QEMUVGA with cirrus but it does not work
- Due date changed from 2020-07-28 to 2020-08-11
- Related to action #69349: [functional][y] setting QEMUVGA=cirrus invalid for aarch64 on remote_vnc_controller: auto_review:"qemu-system-aarch64: Cirrus VGA not available" added
- Status changed from In Progress to Feedback
remains to setup the jobs in the development group
- Status changed from Feedback to Resolved
i added configuration to the https://openqa.suse.de/admin/job_templates/96
aarch64:
- supportserver_generator_from_hdd_gnome:
settings:
BOOTFROM: c
BOOT_HDD_IMAGE: '1'
CONSOLE_JUST_ACTIVATED: '0'
DESKTOP: gnome
HDD_1: 'SLES-%VERSION%-%ARCH%-Build%BUILD%@%MACHINE%-gnome.qcow2'
START_AFTER_TEST: create_hdd_gnome:aarch64
PUBLISH_HDD_1: openqa_support_server_sles15sp2_%ARCH%_%BUILD%@%MACHINE%_%DESKTOP%.qcow2
UEFI_PFLASH_VARS: 'SLES-%VERSION%-%ARCH%-Build%BUILD%@%MACHINE%-gnome-uefi-vars.qcow2'
YAML_SCHEDULE: schedule/supportserver_generator_from_hdd.yaml
testsuite: supportserver_generator_from_hdd
- supportserver_generator_from_hdd_textmode:
settings:
BOOTFROM: c
BOOT_HDD_IMAGE: '1'
CONSOLE_JUST_ACTIVATED: '0'
DESKTOP: textmode
HDD_1: '%DISTRI%-%VERSION%-%ARCH%-%BUILD%-%DESKTOP%@%MACHINE%.qcow2'
START_AFTER_TEST: create_hdd_textmode:aarch64
PUBLISH_HDD_1: openqa_support_server_sles15sp2_%ARCH%_%BUILD%@%MACHINE%_%DESKTOP%.qcow2
UEFI_PFLASH_VARS: '%DISTRI%-%VERSION%-%ARCH%-%BUILD%-%DESKTOP%@%MACHINE%-uefi-vars.qcow2'
YAML_SCHEDULE: schedule/supportserver_generator_from_hdd.yaml
testsuite: supportserver_generator_from_hdd
x86_64:
- supportserver_generator_from_hdd_gnome:
settings:
BOOTFROM: c
BOOT_HDD_IMAGE: '1'
CONSOLE_JUST_ACTIVATED: '0'
DESKTOP: gnome
HDD_1: 'SLES-%VERSION%-%ARCH%-Build%BUILD%@%MACHINE%-gnome.qcow2'
START_AFTER_TEST: create_hdd_gnome
PUBLISH_HDD_1: openqa_support_server_sles15sp2_%ARCH%_%BUILD%@%MACHINE%_%DESKTOP%.qcow2
YAML_SCHEDULE: schedule/supportserver_generator_from_hdd.yaml
testsuite: supportserver_generator_from_hdd
- supportserver_generator_from_hdd_textmode:
settings:
BOOTFROM: c
BOOT_HDD_IMAGE: '1'
CONSOLE_JUST_ACTIVATED: '0'
DESKTOP: textmode
HDD_1: '%DISTRI%-%VERSION%-%ARCH%-%BUILD%-%DESKTOP%@%MACHINE%.qcow2'
START_AFTER_TEST: create_hdd_textmode
PUBLISH_HDD_1: openqa_support_server_sles15sp2_%ARCH%_%BUILD%@%MACHINE%_%DESKTOP%.qcow2
YAML_SCHEDULE: schedule/supportserver_generator_from_hdd.yaml
testsuite: supportserver_generator_from_hdd
- Status changed from Resolved to Feedback
- Status changed from Feedback to Resolved
Image names in the fixed directory:
- openqa_support_server_sles15sp2_aarch64_gnome.qcow2
- openqa_support_server_sles15sp2_aarch64_textmode.qcow2
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