I'm struggling to run an android emulator in a GitLab CICD job.
Right now we have Proxmox virtualization on bare metal which hosts some VMs. One of the VMs is a GitLab runner. The runner uses the docker executor for CICD jobs. So I need to run an android emulator inside a docker container to be able to run instrument tests. Android emulators need a hardware accelerator to start. So I need to enable nested virtualization on Proxmox then use privileged or pass /dev/kvm to CICD container to be able to run the emulator. But the first step (Proxmox nested virtualization) seems very risky to me right now because we already have many services on Proxmox. I want to ask for ideas on how to solve this problem.
What I have tried so far:
- Use an android emulator without hardware acceleration. I used
-no-accelflag andarm64-v8aemulators. None of them worked (dead emulator) - Install GitLab runner on bare metal. It works. But of course, I don't have another production server :)
