From 7bd0077aa82f2f67997f552b4fa353aaf4e36601 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danny Bessems <danny@bessems.eu>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2025 22:14:46 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] build: Start libvirt daemon in container and debug kvm
 acceleration

---
 .gitea/workflows/actions.yaml | 26 ++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/actions.yaml b/.gitea/workflows/actions.yaml
index 8513de0..2341e85 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/actions.yaml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/actions.yaml
@@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           mkdir -p \
             ubuntu-vm
+      - name: Assert source Ubuntu ISO
+        run: |
+          # TODO: Make this path configurable in a yaml file
+          [[ ! -f '/iso/Canonical/Ubuntu Server 24.04/ubuntu-24.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso' ]] || {
+            echo 'Missing source iso file - exiting'; exit 1
+          }
       - name: Generate seed ISO
         run: |
           apt-get update && \
@@ -72,12 +78,6 @@ jobs:
         env:
           ROOT_HASHED_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.ROOT_HASHED_PASSWORD }}
           PUBLIC_SSHKEY: ${{ secrets.PUBLIC_SSHKEY }}
-      - name: Assert source Ubuntu ISO
-        run: |
-          # TODO: Make this path configurable in a yaml file
-          [[ ! -f '/iso/Canonical/Ubuntu Server 24.04/ubuntu-24.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso' ]] || {
-            echo 'Missing source iso file - exiting'; exit 1
-          }
       - name: Create empty QCOW2 disk
         run: |
           apt-get update && \
@@ -86,10 +86,20 @@ jobs:
 
           qemu-img create -f qcow2 ubuntu-vm/ubuntu.qcow2 10G
       - name: Run virt-install
+        # container: quay.io/kubevirt/libvirt
         run: |
           apt-get update && \
           apt-get install -y \
-            virtinst
+            libvirt-daemon-system \
+            libvirt-clients \
+            virtinst \
+            qemu-utils
+
+          libvirtd -d
+
+          qemu-system-x86_64 -accel kvm -cpu host -m 512 -nographic -drive file=/dev/null,if=virtio
+
+          ln -s "/iso/Canonical/Ubuntu Server 24.04/ubuntu-24.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso" ubuntu-vm/ubuntu.iso
 
           virt-install \
             --name ubuntu-harvester \
@@ -97,7 +107,7 @@ jobs:
             --vcpus 2 \
             --disk path=ubuntu-vm/ubuntu.qcow2,size=10,format=qcow2 \
             --disk path=ubuntu-vm/seed.iso,device=cdrom \
-            --cdrom '/iso/Canonical/Ubuntu Server 24.04/ubuntu-24.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso' \
+            --cdrom ubuntu-vm/ubuntu.iso \
             --os-variant ubuntu24.04 \
             --graphics none \
             --network network=default \