Infrastructure | Gitlab runner which supports KVM (#623)

["Sam Thursfield (@sthursfield)" <gitlab-issues gnome org>]

Title: GitLab

Sam Thursfield created an issue: #623

As part of GNOME/gnome-build-meta#206 (Test OS and apps keep working in the VM image) we need a Gitlab CI runner that is able to run a virtual machine using KVM.

In the list of available runners, I see only one tagged 'kvm' and it is offline since 5 months ago:

The pipeline we are trying to run is in gnome-build-meta branch sthursfield/james/openqa-gnome-40. On the regular gnome-build-meta runner, it successfully talks to openqa.gnome.org but fails with this error:

[2021-07-29T12:44:43.210 UTC] [debug] QEMU: QEMU emulator version 4.2.1 (openSUSE Leap 15.2)
[2021-07-29T12:44:43.210 UTC] [debug] QEMU: Copyright (c) 2003-2019 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers
[2021-07-29T12:44:43.210 UTC] [debug] QEMU: Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied
[2021-07-29T12:44:43.211 UTC] [warn] !!! : qemu-system-x86_64: failed to initialize KVM: Permission denied

This is presumably because the gnome-build-meta runner doesn't give Docker the necessary permissions to run KVM.

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