[kubevirt-dev] 2025-10-22 sig-ci quarantine catch-up - notes

[Brian Carey]

 2025-10-22 sig-ci quarantine catch-up

When: Weekly on Wed, 9:45 – 10:15am

Attendees: brianmcarey, fossedihelm, ndothan, xpivarc

Reminders:

• we will create GitHub issues for tracking

• GitHub issues and PRs

• should be marked with /sig ci and /kind flake if applicable

• should be marked with the target sig

• kubevirt quarantine process documentation

Topics:

• [urgent]

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• ci-health

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• previous action items

• state of existing issues: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Akind%2Fflake+sort%3Aupdated-asc+label%3Asig%2Fci

• [non-urgent]

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• Look at flakes

• flake stats - create issues accordingly

• count: 701 failures overall

• [sig-compute] Flaky host USB passthrough tests 

• https://storage.googleapis.com/kubevirt-prow/reports/flakefinder/kubevirt/kubevirt/flake-stats-14days-2025-10-22.html#%5bsig-compute%5d%5bUSB%5d%20host%20USB%20Passthrough%20with%20usb%20storage%20with%20emulated%20USB%20devices%20Should%20successfully%20passthrough%202%20emulated%20USB%20devices 

• Existing issue - https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/15907 

• [sig-compute] Flaky CPU pinning test causing failures in compute-serial lanes

• https://search.ci.kubevirt.io/?search=test_id%3A829&maxAge=336h&context=1&type=bug%2Bissue%2Bjunit&name=&excludeName=&maxMatches=5&maxBytes=20971520&groupBy=job 

• Xpivarc to take a look

• dequarantine tests:

• look at list of quarantined tests

• count: tests in quarantine currently
  

• check status, i.e. who is working on those

• look at PRs that want to fix flakes

• see whether we can dequarantine tests