On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 2:44 PM Geoffrey Brown <gbr...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> This week some familiar tier 1 test suites began running on a new test
> platform labelled "Android 7.0 x86" on treeherder. Only a few test suites
> are running so far; more are planned.
>
> Like the existing "Android 4.2" and "Android 4.3" test platforms, these
> tests run in an Android emulator running in a docker container (the same
> Ubuntu-based image used for linux64 tests). The new platform runs an x86
> emulator using kvm acceleration, enabling tests to run much, much faster
> than on the older platforms. As a bonus, the new platform uses Android 7.0
> ("Nougat", API 24) - more modern, more relevant.
>
This is incredibly awesome news! For those not in the know, the reason
this is so noteworthy is that most cloud-based hosts don't expose KVM
acceleration, since it can be a sec concern. In particular, AWS doesn't
expose KVM to most (all?) instances. There's an awful lot of plumbing
required to get jobs running in different cloud hosts... but here we are.
Bravo to everybody involved!
Nick
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