CI: try macos-14-large (Intel)

[AkihiroSuda]

This might provide better (or worse) stability

[AkihiroSuda]

Upgrade test is still killed without logs 😥

[nirs]

This is intel because you configured the repo with an intel runner?

OK, found the docs, it is very surprising that macos-14-large is intel and macos-14-xlarge is arm64.
https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runners/using-larger-runners/about-larger-runners#about-macos-larger-runners

[jandubois]

Note that the large runners are not available in free organizations; we can only use them because CNCF pays for it (or gets time donated by Microsoft, I don't know).

[AkihiroSuda]

Can any of @lima-vm/committers analyze why the Upgrade test still fails without logs and is marked as “Skipped”?
🤔

[jandubois]

Can any of @lima-vm/committers analyze why the Upgrade test still fails without logs and is marked as “Skipped”?

I've been trying, but without success so far.

I've removed the retry action, removed the cache, tried to upgrade from 0.20.2 instead of 0.15.1, but the failure remains the same, the running in the upgrade test is hanging after the second ssh message:

time="2024-09-20T00:17:23Z" level=info msg="[hostagent] Starting QEMU (hint: to watch the boot progress, see \"/Users/runner/.lima/test-upgrade/serial.log\")"
[103](https://github.com/jandubois/lima/actions/runs/10950674588/job/30406341318?pr=1#step:6:104)
time="2024-09-20T00:17:23Z" level=info msg="SSH Local Port: 49209"
[104](https://github.com/jandubois/lima/actions/runs/10950674588/job/30406341318?pr=1#step:6:105)
time="2024-09-20T00:17:23Z" level=info msg="[hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 5: \"ssh\""
[105](https://github.com/jandubois/lima/actions/runs/10950674588/job/30406341318?pr=1#step:6:106)
time="2024-09-20T00:17:33Z" level=info msg="[hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 5: \"ssh\""

I think something is so wrong that the runner actually disconnects, and that somehow drops even the logs there were there until that point.

I'm trying a little bit longer, but the jobs are getting queued up, so progress is slow.

I wonder how this test ever passed before.

[jandubois]

I'm trying a little bit longer, but the jobs are getting queued up, so progress is slow.

I've tried a gazillion different things, and believe the issue is an incompatibility with the latest qemu version from brew and the GitHub runners. It is somewhat surprising, as that version seems to work fine for me locally, also on an Intel Monterey machine.

I've created #2640 and hope it fixes the upgrade test. It will build qemu 8.2.1 from source; if it works, then I will try tomorrow to download the bottle instead. I've been running into some issues with authorization when trying to fetch the bottle with curl, and I'm out of time for now.

BTW, brew no longer supports Monterey, so all formulas will start building from source once they get updated:

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[AkihiroSuda]

Thanks @jandubois

Probably no need to use macos-14-large ?