tests: add spread test exercising multipass build VMs
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Merged. Implemented spread tests for multipass build VMs and migrated amd64 Xenial and Bionic tests to GCE with nested KVM, resolving LP: #1798682. Approved by one reviewer with passing CI checks across seven files.
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This PR resolves [LP: #1798682](https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapcraft/+bug/1798682) by changing all amd64 Xenial and Bionic Spread tests to run on a GCE image with nested KVM enabled, and adding a test that uses multipass build VMs.
Hat tip to @sergiocazzolato who made this happen.
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Merged. Implemented spread tests for multipass build VMs and migrated amd64 Xenial and Bionic tests to GCE with nested KVM, resolving LP: #1798682. Approved by one reviewer with passing CI checks across seven files. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Merged. Resolves LP #1798682 by introducing a Spread test for multipass build VMs and migrating amd64 Xenial and Bionic tests to a GCE image with nested KVM enabled. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Merged into master. Updated amd64 Xenial and Bionic Spread tests to run on GCE with nested KVM and added a multipass build VM test, resolving Launchpad bug #1798682. |
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