Bug 9298 - Autobuilder enable KVM on the cluster for x86, x86-64
Summary: Autobuilder enable KVM on the cluster for x86, x86-64
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: AutoBuilder
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: autobuilder (show other bugs)
Version: 2.1
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: High enhancement
Target Milestone: 2.2 M3
Assignee: Bill Randle
QA Contact: Francisco Pedraza
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Reported: 2016-03-17 23:09 UTC by Aníbal Limón
Modified: 2016-08-22 15:00 UTC (History)
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Description Aníbal Limón 2016-03-17 23:09:07 UTC 
We need to enable kvm on the AB cluster for x86 and x86-64 testimage.

This will help to improve testing times against images, currently the support on  runqemu script exists.
Comment 1 Randy MacLeod 2016-03-24 14:48:08 UTC 
We moved our builders from Xen to Docker containers at Wind River. This lets us specify the distro used to do a build and with a few configuration options to optimize disk I/O we get near native build performance. Konrad (CCed) is the point of contact if you're interested. Testing still needs qemu for non-x86 targets.
Comment 2 Bill Randle 2016-08-16 23:14:30 UTC 
Added support to use kvm when running qemux86* machines on an x86 host and added a new variable QEMU_USE_KVM to the autobuilder conf/autobuilder.conf file that enables the use of kvm.

Patches sent to oe-core and yocto mailing lists.
Comment 3 Bill Randle 2016-08-22 15:00:36 UTC 
Merged to master by Joshua.