Yesterday I got a request from the SDK team to help them set up some automated testing by October. As one might imagine, this requires a phone or the emulator:
https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/document/d/1D7J8TgxqDBpuilE8z1EGtUF4OK_kGQm39DodzVbbOKY/edit?usp=drive_web I've directed us down the path of running the emulator on top of bare metal, provisioned using MAAS and Juju, because nested kvm has been problematic in the past. This came with the backing of IS. Still, the more requests I get for services that would require either nested kvm or a more complex setup, the more I want to see for myself how much of a problem it really is. So in the background last night I started to investigate. After some false starts with the wrong emulator package¹, I managed to piece together the following: sudo add-apt-respository ppa:phablet-team/tools # for the correct emulator package and phablet-tools sudo apt-get install bzr ubuntu-emulator xvfb sudo ubuntu-emulator create --arch=i386 myinstance xvfb-run ubuntu-emulator run --memory=1024 myinstance Unfortunately this isn't enough to get a working environment: buntu@juju-lcy-machine-0:~$ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose xvfb-run glxinfo name of display: :99 libGL: screen 0 does not appear to be DRI3 capable libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/tls/swrast_dri.so libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/swrast_dri.so libGL: driver does not expose __driDriverGetExtensions_swrast(): /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/swrast_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driDriverGetExtensions_swrast libGL: Can't open configuration file /home/ubuntu/.drirc: No such file or directory. libGL: Can't open configuration file /home/ubuntu/.drirc: No such file or directory. libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig Dimitri and I tried to work through this a bit. Thinking it was due to missing GL packages, I installed the ubuntu-desktop metapackage. This didn't help. So that's where we're at. It looks like nested kvm might work after all, but we now have a problem getting gallium and llvmpipe to step in and provide software-based 3D rendering. ¹ https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1347737 -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-ci-engineering Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~canonical-ci-engineering More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
