<![CDATA[#copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers]]> is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/e4b02816-3860-4318-ab8b-40a035c57c29/copyfail-is-why-the-forgejo-actions-runner-service-i-m-setting-up-will-be-using-kvm-and-single-shot-vms-rather-than-containersRSS for NodeThu, 30 Apr 2026 15:31:16 GMTThu, 30 Apr 2026 10:05:30 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:46:10 GMT]]>@whitequark i made just one regrettable descision and now im here, lol. I was absolutely sure this router just worksβ„’ on mainline openwrt

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://feed.yopp.me/users/alex/statuses/116494196466501224https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://feed.yopp.me/users/alex/statuses/116494196466501224Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:46:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:35:22 GMT]]>@jorijn i'm leaving the actual forgejo specific bits until the end, want to see that i can reliably and quickly spawn VMs first

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116493918068447751https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116493918068447751Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:35:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:49:47 GMT]]>@whitequark interesting nonetheless, does it resemble https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions/issues/152?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.community/users/jorijn/statuses/116493738802795597https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.community/users/jorijn/statuses/116493738802795597Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:49:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:30:10 GMT]]>@ananas nothing specific yet, trying out some stuff

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116493661682208584https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116493661682208584Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:30:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:29:39 GMT]]>@jorijn it's very much WIP

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116493659647349306https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116493659647349306Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:29:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:23:02 GMT]]>@whitequark What do you use the orchestrate the VMs? Every time I try to do this I end up trying to reinvent half of libvirt.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://scicomm.xyz/users/ananas/statuses/116493633650126014https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://scicomm.xyz/users/ananas/statuses/116493633650126014Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:23:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:07:46 GMT]]>@whitequark wanna tell me a bit more about that forgejo runner system? πŸ™‚ interested.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.community/users/jorijn/statuses/116493573578039602https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.community/users/jorijn/statuses/116493573578039602Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:07:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:58:38 GMT]]>@alex whitequark@whitequark.org, you can encrypt to https://codeberg.org/whitequark.keys

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116493537660744276https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116493537660744276Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:58:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:57:49 GMT]]>@whitequark awesome! Gimme some time, I'll prepare everything. How can I reach you to hand over access credentials?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://feed.yopp.me/users/alex/statuses/116493534439754804https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://feed.yopp.me/users/alex/statuses/116493534439754804Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:57:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:54:35 GMT]]>@thejpster i have to say Solaris zones are surprisingly slow for this

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/ap/users/116487621042906790/statuses/116493521739558119https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/ap/users/116487621042906790/statuses/116493521739558119Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:54:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:46:46 GMT]]>@whitequark Wow... that one is pretty bad.

Guess I'm deleting some kernel modules today.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/snowfox/statuses/116493491040258214https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/snowfox/statuses/116493491040258214Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:46:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:41:48 GMT]]>@chaos ack, I will be sharing it here

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116493471455456511https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116493471455456511Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:41:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:39:31 GMT]]>@whitequark let us know how you get on with em

we did some hacking on crosvm and used it a while ago but knowledge gained never sync'd

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gts.schizofucked.monster/users/chaos/statuses/01KQF2ZPDH8TBF2P28CAVMC0CAhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gts.schizofucked.monster/users/chaos/statuses/01KQF2ZPDH8TBF2P28CAVMC0CAThu, 30 Apr 2026 11:39:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:39:09 GMT]]>@alex access would help a lot for testing, yeah!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116493461068664316https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116493461068664316Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:39:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:38:28 GMT]]>@thejpster mercifully, no

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116493458343432130https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116493458343432130Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:38:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:38:07 GMT]]>@chaos firecracker or crosvm is the current plan but i'm not recommending either until i get actual operational experience

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116493456997983578https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116493456997983578Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:38:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:36:11 GMT]]>@wren6991 yep

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116493449389240006https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116493449389240006Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:36:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:34:23 GMT]]>@whitequark hoping there is a way to speed up vm launch time though, if you have any resources that might be useful, feel free to send us, medical issues are making it almost impossible for us to focus enough to find resources on how to best do this kinda thing securely and decently

while we'd love to use xcp-ng, the old kernel / xen kinda limits its use on little guys (fucked cpu freq scaling), and proxmox requires so much host configuration for our weird setups which we'd rather avoid, so making our own embedded style alpine distro with A/B boot specifically for this

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gts.schizofucked.monster/users/chaos/statuses/01KQF2P9YV4666VGEHAJXE9XXChttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gts.schizofucked.monster/users/chaos/statuses/01KQF2P9YV4666VGEHAJXE9XXCThu, 30 Apr 2026 11:34:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:30:48 GMT]]>@whitequark I have my old box collecting dust while waiting for a crazy enough buyer. Im slowly lowering price, but probably it’s not going to be sold in next few months.

If it’s any use for you in meantime, I can give you direct access to bcm webui so you can do whatever you like with it πŸ™‚

We can figure out how much of heads up you need in case someone would be willing to buy it. And I have second low power box that can be used for backups

EPYC 7551P (1gen, 32C/64T) on Gigabyte MZ01-CE1 (with browser based KVM)
RAM 256G: 8Γ— 32G M393A4K40BB2-CTD DDR4-2666
NVME 2T: 1Γ— WD Black SN850X
HDD 12T: 4Γ— 3TB HGST Ultrastar 7K300

  • 2Γ— Tesla P40 (if you are in a mood for messing with sharing gpu with workers)
]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://feed.yopp.me/users/alex/statuses/116493428228587136https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://feed.yopp.me/users/alex/statuses/116493428228587136Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:30:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:30:07 GMT]]>@whitequark I suspect you won't be using VMware vSphere and the VMware Perl SDK though πŸ˜•

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/thejpster/statuses/116493425517509432https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/thejpster/statuses/116493425517509432Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:30:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:27:18 GMT]]>@whitequark dunno what copyfail is but we're gonna end up doing the same
currently working on migration to our alpine+libvirt+scripts hypervisor os on main server specifically to allow for stuff like this
eventually plan to make a thing to let us do docker compose style services, but as a full VM per service or a container runtime if required

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gts.schizofucked.monster/users/chaos/statuses/01KQF29ASR6KJ168DBFAJHA7MShttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gts.schizofucked.monster/users/chaos/statuses/01KQF29ASR6KJ168DBFAJHA7MSThu, 30 Apr 2026 11:27:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:20:12 GMT]]>@whitequark containers: the convenience of a VM and the security of rawdogging userspace 😎

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://types.pl/users/wren6991/statuses/116493386549023255https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://types.pl/users/wren6991/statuses/116493386549023255Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:20:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:16:22 GMT]]>@thejpster yep, the plan is to do something like that with microVMs (or the closest approximation if the obvious solution is non-viable)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116493371493618337https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116493371493618337Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:16:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to #copyfail is why the Forgejo Actions runner service i'm setting up will be using kvm and single shot VMs rather than containers on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:15:39 GMT]]>@whitequark copy-on-write shallow clones of VMs works great for CI. I was doing it back in 2011 or so.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/thejpster/statuses/116493368641690731https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/thejpster/statuses/116493368641690731Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:15:39 GMT