That's awesome! The tests are running really well now. Thanks for all this (continued) work, it's really appreciated!!
- Houston On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 5:29 AM Uwe Schindler <u...@thetaphi.de> wrote: > Hi a small update, > > the new virtualization works phantastic. Windows builds are a bit slower > than others, but this is caused by NTFS and Windows file locking. Basically > it is not different than with your local WIndows laptop. Macos builds are > nearly as fast as Linux builds (keep in mind that the number of assigned > CPUs differs between host and guest VM). This also applies to Solr. > > All JDKs were updated on Saturday. So Lucene main builds work. > > Everything is using virtio drivers (network and disk images). > Interestingly, macOs BY DEFAULT ships with drivers for "virtio" networking > and disks (according to observations by others they do this since Mojave)! > So the whole thing is as fast as "plain hardware" and real SSD disks (no > SATA emulation needed): > > @Paul Irwin: Because of macos shipping with "virtio drivers", they support > virtualization officially, also with KVM! They either test their own builds > in KVM for easier debugging the kernel or they officially support it. The > "osk" key is not a secret anymore. You could only argue that "I" do not run > it on native Apple hardware. > > Uwe > Am 22.03.2025 um 00:14 schrieb Uwe Schindler: > > Hi, > > I converted "Windows VM" (that was easy) and reinstalled a brand-new > "macOS 15 Sequoia VM" in Policeman Jenkins without using VirtualBOX > anymore. All is running now as libvirt-based KVM instances. The builds are > now > faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaast!!!!!1!!1111!!!!!!! > :-) > > The Windows and macOS VMs now build Lucene and especially Solr in similar > times. I also extended disk space to 128 GiB per VM. > > I also have not seen any hangs of macOS, so the native support by KVM with > some CPUID adaptions and good wrk by qemu is working well. Thanks to > https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM for the scripts to download and setup > the libvirt XML file. Finally the VMs are using "unsafe" disk-io mode for > the disk images, so fsync and direct-io don't write through. > > I will install newer JDKs for macOS tomorrow to get the Lucene Main builds > working again (the old macOS version did not support JDK>21). > > Uwe > > Am 19.03.2025 um 09:34 schrieb Dawid Weiss: > > The problem with Macos is the emulation. > > Kudos to you for even making it work. I never managed to get it working > properly. There was always something that didn't work quite right or just > broke after each Apple update. I'm sure > they make it intentionally difficult to run a hackintosh. > > We do have true (I hope) mac runners on github so we do have some coverage > there. > https://github.com/apache/lucene/actions/runs/13932872683/job/38994065168 > > D. > > -- > Uwe Schindler > Achterdiek 19, D-28357 Bremenhttps://www.thetaphi.de > eMail: u...@thetaphi.de > >
