Merge remote-tracking branch 'ibex/main' into main

.github/workflows/vagrant-up.yml

@@ -22,15 +22,18 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   vagrant-provision:
-    # Running on macOS, because macOS-based GitHub-hosted action runners do support nested virtualization.
+    # Running on self-hosted system(s), because GitHub-hosted action runners did break too often.
     # https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/433
-    runs-on: macos-12
-
+    runs-on:
+      group: Default
+      labels: [self-hosted, Linux, X64]
     steps:
+    - name: clean up old VMs
+      run: | 
+        vboxmanage list vms | \
+        grep -o -P '(?<={).*(?=})' | \
+        while read line ; do vboxmanage unregistervm $line --delete ; done
     - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-    - name: install dependencies
-      run: |
-        brew install wget unzip gnu-tar gnu-sed
     - name: show Vagrant version
       run: vagrant --version
     - name: run vagrant up
@@ -45,9 +48,8 @@ jobs:
         vboxmanage export gips -o gips.ovf
         sed -i -e '/<BIOS>/,/<\/BIOS>/d' gips.ovf
         sed -i -e '/<RemoteDisplay enabled="true">/,/<\/RemoteDisplay>/d' gips.ovf
-        gtar -cvf gips.ova gips.ovf gips-disk001.vmdk
+        tar -cvf gips.ova gips.ovf gips-disk001.vmdk
         rm -rf gips.ovf gips-disk001.vmdk
-      # ^gtar (to use gnu-tar) instead of macOS tar
     - name: upload artifact
       uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
       with:

README.md

@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ Unfortunately, only the macOS-based GitHub-hosted action runners do support nest
 
 Therefore, we've adapted the CI-configuration to provision the **GIPS-VM** on a macOS-based runner until nested virtualization support gets added to the Linux-based runners.
 
+Unfortunately, these workflows did break **very often** lately so we switched back to self-hosted Linux-based runners.
+
 ### Self-hosted Linux-based runners
 
 Currently, all actions must be run by a self-hosted GitHub runner, because GitHub-hosted runners do not provide the VT-x flag:
@@ -63,4 +65,4 @@ Required packages (at least):
 - `VirtualBox`
 - `vagrant`
 
-**Please keep in mind that your runner (VM) needs the virtualization flag enabled and at least 6 GB of RAM!**
+**Please keep in mind that your runner (VM) needs the virtualization flag enabled and at least 10 GB of RAM!**

runner-setup.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+
+USERNAME=maxkratz
+
+# utilities + sudo
+apt-get update
+apt-get install -yq sudo tmux htop wget grep sed gpg unzip tar
+/sbin/adduser $USERNAME sudo
+
+# VirtualBox
+wget -O- -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc | sudo gpg --dearmour -o /usr/share/keyrings/oracle_vbox_2016.gpg
+echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/oracle_vbox_2016.gpg] http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian bookworm contrib" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list
+
+apt-get update
+apt-get install -yq virtualbox-7.0
+
+# Vagrant
+apt-get install -yq vagrant
+
+echo "=> Prerequisites installed. Ready for GitHub Actions runner installation."