Add top-level `vmgui` to open the VMware Workstation GUI (renamed from the
earlier `vm open`). --vmx is optional: with it the GUI opens that VM, without
it the GUI starts bare. Power-on/fullscreen flags ignored (with a notice) when
no VMX is given. Needs an X display — sudo -u ci-runner strips $DISPLAY, so
--display / xhost; see runbook §4.7. 9 tests; suite green ≥90%.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add four native command groups so the Linux host no longer needs pwsh for
manual ops. __main__ registers all four at once, so they ship together.
- bench run (C2): N concurrent jobs in-process via concurrent.futures,
per-round orphan-clone + stale-lock assertions. Replaces
Test-CapacityBurnIn.ps1 + Start-BurnInTest*.ps1. No
Start-Job/pwsh/$IsWindows.
- bench measure (C3): clone/start/IP/transport/destroy timings appended to
benchmark.jsonl (legacy field names kept). Replaces
Measure-CIBenchmark.ps1.
- smoke run (C4): one E2E job; asserts exit 0 + artifact dir + job/success
event. ns7zip/nsinnounp presets. Replaces Test-Smoke.ps1
+ Test-*Build-Linux.ps1.
- validate host (C5): vmrun/snapshot/keyring/permissions/systemd checks.
- validate guest(C6): transport probe with explicit failure cause.
- creds set (C6): keyring writer matching credentials.py read scheme;
password via stdin/prompt only. Replaces
Set-CIGuestCredential.ps1.
All groups import backends.load_backend only (Phase D ESXi path stays open).
Suite green, coverage 95.10% (gate 90%); new modules at 100%.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add `retention run` command (ports Invoke-RetentionPolicy.ps1): purges
old artifact/log dirs with aggressive mode when disk space is low.
- Add `template backup` command (ports Backup-CITemplate.ps1): 7z -mx=1
compressed archives in /var/lib/ci/backups/, prunes to keep-count=3,
stops/restarts act-runner.service around the copy.
- Update ci-retention-policy.service and ci-backup-template.service to use
Python; pwsh is no longer required on the Linux host.
- Fix ci-watch-runner-health.service: pass --service-name act-runner
(Linux service name, not Windows act_runner default).
- Fix _list_orphans in vm.py: wrap is_dir() inside the OSError try block
so a stat() failure on an entry is silently skipped rather than raised.
- Mark B5 complete in PhaseB-user-checklist.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase A4 of plans/implementation-plan-A-B.md. Implements the full job orchestrator (clone -> start -> wait -> probe -> build -> collect -> guaranteed cleanup) as a new commands/job.py click command, registered under python -m ci_orchestrator job. Backend selection goes through backends.load_backend(config) so Phase C can swap in remote drivers without touching the command. The legacy scripts/Invoke-CIJob.ps1 is replaced by a thin PS 5.1 shim that delegates to the Python CLI; tests/python/test_commands_job.py adds 13 cases covering Linux/Windows happy paths, override application, skip-artifact, and cleanup on every failure mode.
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