gitlab-ci: Remove the avocado tests from the CI pipelines

We are going to move the remaining Avocado tests step by step
into the functional test framework. Unfortunately, Avocado fails
with an error if it cannot determine a test to run, so disable
the tests here now to avoid failures in the Gitlab-CI during the
next steps.

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20250414113031.151105-2-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest-template.yml

@@ -95,7 +95,6 @@
   cache:
     key: "${CI_JOB_NAME}-cache"
     paths:
-      - ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/avocado-cache
       - ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/functional-cache
     policy: pull-push
   artifacts:
@@ -109,16 +108,6 @@
     reports:
       junit: build/tests/results/latest/results.xml
   before_script:
-    - mkdir -p ~/.config/avocado
-    - echo "[datadir.paths]" > ~/.config/avocado/avocado.conf
-    - echo "cache_dirs = ['${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/avocado-cache']"
-           >> ~/.config/avocado/avocado.conf
-    - echo -e '[job.output.testlogs]\nstatuses = ["FAIL", "INTERRUPT"]'
-           >> ~/.config/avocado/avocado.conf
-    - if [ -d ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/avocado-cache ]; then
-        du -chs ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/*-cache ;
-      fi
-    - export AVOCADO_ALLOW_UNTRUSTED_CODE=1
     - export QEMU_TEST_ALLOW_UNTRUSTED_CODE=1
     - export QEMU_TEST_CACHE_DIR=${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/functional-cache
   after_script:

.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml

@@ -29,8 +29,7 @@ functional-system-alpine:
       artifacts: true
   variables:
     IMAGE: alpine
-    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-avocado check-functional
-    AVOCADO_TAGS: arch:avr arch:loongarch64 arch:mips64 arch:mipsel
+    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-functional
 
 build-system-ubuntu:
   extends:
@@ -60,8 +59,7 @@ functional-system-ubuntu:
       artifacts: true
   variables:
     IMAGE: ubuntu2204
-    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-avocado check-functional
-    AVOCADO_TAGS: arch:alpha arch:microblazeel arch:mips64el
+    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-functional
 
 build-system-debian:
   extends:
@@ -92,8 +90,7 @@ functional-system-debian:
       artifacts: true
   variables:
     IMAGE: debian
-    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-avocado check-functional
-    AVOCADO_TAGS: arch:arm arch:i386 arch:riscv64 arch:sh4 arch:sparc arch:xtensa
+    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-functional
 
 crash-test-debian:
   extends: .native_test_job_template
@@ -155,9 +152,7 @@ functional-system-fedora:
       artifacts: true
   variables:
     IMAGE: fedora
-    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-avocado check-functional
-    AVOCADO_TAGS: arch:microblaze arch:mips arch:xtensa arch:m68k
-      arch:riscv32 arch:ppc arch:sparc64
+    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-functional
 
 crash-test-fedora:
   extends: .native_test_job_template
@@ -278,9 +273,7 @@ functional-system-centos:
       artifacts: true
   variables:
     IMAGE: centos9
-    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-avocado check-functional
-    AVOCADO_TAGS: arch:ppc64 arch:or1k arch:s390x arch:x86_64 arch:rx
-      arch:sh4
+    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-functional
 
 build-system-opensuse:
   extends:
@@ -309,8 +302,7 @@ functional-system-opensuse:
       artifacts: true
   variables:
     IMAGE: opensuse-leap
-    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-avocado check-functional
-    AVOCADO_TAGS: arch:s390x arch:x86_64 arch:aarch64
+    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-functional
 
 #
 # Flaky tests. We don't run these by default and they are allow fail
@@ -338,10 +330,9 @@ functional-system-flaky:
   allow_failure: true
   variables:
     IMAGE: debian
-    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-avocado check-functional
+    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-functional
     QEMU_JOB_OPTIONAL: 1
     QEMU_TEST_FLAKY_TESTS: 1
-    AVOCADO_TAGS: flaky
 
 # This jobs explicitly disable TCG (--disable-tcg), KVM is detected by
 # the configure script. The container doesn't contain Xen headers so
@@ -482,8 +473,8 @@ clang-user:
 # Since slirp callbacks are used in QEMU Timers, we cannot use libslirp with
 # CFI builds, and thus have to disable it here.
 #
-# Split in three sets of build/check/avocado to limit the execution time of each
-# job
+# Split in three sets of build/check/functional to limit the execution time
+# of each job
 build-cfi-aarch64:
   extends:
     - .native_build_job_template
@@ -520,7 +511,7 @@ functional-cfi-aarch64:
       artifacts: true
   variables:
     IMAGE: fedora
-    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-avocado check-functional
+    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-functional
 
 build-cfi-ppc64-s390x:
   extends:
@@ -558,7 +549,7 @@ functional-cfi-ppc64-s390x:
       artifacts: true
   variables:
     IMAGE: fedora
-    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-avocado check-functional
+    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-functional
 
 build-cfi-x86_64:
   extends:
@@ -592,7 +583,7 @@ functional-cfi-x86_64:
       artifacts: true
   variables:
     IMAGE: fedora
-    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-avocado check-functional
+    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-functional
 
 tsan-build:
   extends: .native_build_job_template