> On 2. 12. 2021, at 13:19, Sandro Bonazzola <sbona...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi, just a quick update on current issues in trying to build oVirt Node and 
> the engine appliance outside Jenkins.
> 
> 1) Using GitHub Actions: an attempt to build it is in progress here: 
> https://github.com/sandrobonazzola/ovirt-appliance/pull/1 
> <https://github.com/sandrobonazzola/ovirt-appliance/pull/1>
> it's currently failing due to lorax not being able to perform the build. It 
> kind of make sense as we are trying to do a virt-install within a container 
> without the needed virtualization hardware exposed.
> I'm currently investigating how to make use of software virtualization in 
> order to drop the requirement on missing hardware / nested virtualization.
> Also investigating on how to use self hosted runners for providing a build 
> system with usable virtualization hardware.

it can usually be worked around by bypassing libvirt and/or using full 
emulation.
can we somehow get to the virt-install log?

> 
> 2) Using COPR: we have basically the same issue: lorax fails not having 
> access to the virtualization hardware
> 
> 3) Using CentOS Community Build System
> This is a fully fledged Koji instance and it allows to build using the 
> image-build variant. It has a completely different configuration system and 
> it is more similar to what we are doing within the downstream build of oVirt 
> Node. An attempt of providing the configuration started here: 
> https://gerrit.ovirt.org/c/ovirt-appliance/+/117801 
> <https://gerrit.ovirt.org/c/ovirt-appliance/+/117801>
> The issue there is that all the packages needed to be included within Node 
> and Appliance must be built within CentOS Community Build System build root.
> The system has no external access to the internet so everything we need it 
> needs to come from CentOS infra.
> 
> I haven't started digging into oVirt Node but the build flow is very similar 
> to the appliance one, so once one is solved, the other should be simple.
> 
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> Sandro Bonazzola
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