After build-iso, a new smoke-vm job uploads the freshly built ISO to
the test Proxmox at 192.168.178.165 via PVE API token, boots it in a
fresh VM (VMID range 9000-9099, MAC derived from commit SHA so the
runner can find the DHCP IP by scanning the LAN), and curls :5000 to
confirm the webinstaller answers HTTP 200. Last 5 smoke VMs + their
ISOs are kept for post-mortem; older ones are purged. continue-on-error
on the smoke job so a VM-side flake doesn't mark the ISO build red.
Shortens the feedback loop on ISO regressions from "next manual VM
test session" (days) to "next push" (minutes) — the 2026-04-15/16 VM
sessions each found real boot-time bugs that unit tests missed.
Docs at docs/smoke-vm.md. Requires Forgejo secrets PVE_TEST_HOST and
PVE_TEST_TOKEN (dedicated smoke@pve!ci PVE token, privilege-separated).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bootstrap script + compose + config checked in under ops/forgejo-runner/
so a second runner is a scripted setup. runner-setup.md corrects the
register label format (<name>:docker://<image>, not bare names) and
documents the Ubuntu systemd-resolved DNS gotcha.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
