coordination #131519
Updated by okurz over 1 year ago
## Motivation
As discussed in #131144 and various chats the additional challenge for machines like "xen/hyperv/vmware" is that there are no clear instructions available how to deploy a new machine to fill that purpose. This is why we have no or little redundancy. That means: For any qemu worker we can just keep it offline for weeks and nobody notices as we have redundancy and build up new machines quickly. If we apply the "same level of care" for openqaw5-xen that means no Xen testing for weeks. We have free hardware ressources available e.g. in FC Basement. How about we try to deploy machines there to be usable as Xen workers? Same for hyperv/vmware?
## Suggestions
* We have a machine [unreal.qe.nue2.suse.org](https://racktables.nue.suse.com/index.php?page=object&object_id=1990) in FC Basement which we can use for the purpose of running special openQA workers. okurz's suggestion:
* [unreal1](https://racktables.nue.suse.com/index.php?page=object&object_id=2226) as normal OSD openQA worker connecting to the other instances next to it
* [unreal2](https://racktables.nue.suse.com/index.php?page=object&object_id=2228), [unreal3](https://racktables.nue.suse.com/index.php?page=object&object_id=2230), [unreal4](https://racktables.nue.suse.com/index.php?page=object&object_id=2232), [unreal5](https://racktables.nue.suse.com/index.php?page=object&object_id=2234) as bare-metal test hosts #131552
* [unreal6](https://racktables.nue.suse.com/index.php?page=object&object_id=2236) for pure Xen #131546
* [unreal7](https://racktables.nue.suse.com/index.php?page=object&object_id=2238) for VMWare
* [unreal8](https://racktables.nue.suse.com/index.php?page=object&object_id=2240) for hyperv #131549