feat: Use more generic ITF QEMU plugin

[lurtz]

For running EB Linux and Ubuntu the ITF QEMU plugin needed features like

• rootfs
• specifying machine

Which are added with

• feat: Add EB Linux support to QEMU ITF plugin itf#123
• feat: Test ITF QEMU plugin with Ubuntu image itf#135
• feat: Add copying files into QEMU image elektrobit-contrib/eclipse-score_itf#2

See also my other prototype where I use some older code of this to run EB Linux in reference_integration: elektrobit-contrib/eclipse-score_reference_integration#3

The goal of this pull request to make the patch in the linked pull request obsolete and use the ITF code without changes.

TODO

• Add EB Linux image and test showing that it works
• Simplify linux_qemu plugin interface
• Run it with QNX

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Pull request overview

This PR migrates Linux/QNX QEMU-backed integration testing from the repo’s custom linux_qemu plugin to the upstream ITF QEMU plugin, and extends the integration test setup to support an additional EB Linux (EBcLfSA) aarch64 QEMU environment (including image preparation and CI tooling).

Changes:

• Replace the custom Linux QEMU pytest plugin with the upstream ITF QEMU plugin and adjust the integration-test macro accordingly.
• Add EBcLfSA aarch64 QEMU environment + image build pipeline and a corresponding integration test target wiring.
• Update Ubuntu QEMU image preparation, CI runner dependencies, and devcontainer dependencies to support the new ITF-based flow.

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Copilot reviewed 25 out of 26 changed files in this pull request and generated 5 comments.

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File	Description
third_party/score_itf-qemu-ping-timeout.patch	Patch applied to score_itf to increase QEMU ping timeout.
REUSE.toml	Add REUSE path coverage for new EBcLfSA QEMU environment files.
quality/README.md	Update docs to reflect using the upstream ITF QEMU plugin and rootfs overlay approach.
quality/integration_testing/test/example-app-aarch64.sh	Add aarch64 shell variant of the example app for EBcLfSA image.
quality/integration_testing/test/example-app2-aarch64.sh	Add companion aarch64 script that waits for the signal file.
quality/integration_testing/test/BUILD	Add EBcLfSA packaging + ITF QEMU invocation targets for Linux/QNX.
quality/integration_testing/plugins/linux_qemu/README.md	Remove documentation for the deleted custom Linux QEMU plugin.
quality/integration_testing/plugins/linux_qemu/qemu.py	Remove custom QEMU launcher implementation.
quality/integration_testing/plugins/linux_qemu/qemu_test.py	Remove unit tests for the deleted custom QEMU launcher.
quality/integration_testing/plugins/linux_qemu/qemu_process.py	Remove custom QEMU process wrapper.
quality/integration_testing/plugins/linux_qemu/config.py	Remove custom config loader/validators for the deleted plugin.
quality/integration_testing/plugins/linux_qemu/BUILD	Remove Bazel targets for the deleted plugin and its tests.
quality/integration_testing/plugins/linux_qemu/init.py	Remove the custom pytest plugin entrypoint and deployment logic.
quality/integration_testing/integration_testing.bzl	Switch macro wiring to ITF QEMU plugin + rootfs overlay generation.
quality/integration_testing/images/ebclfsa_aarch64/config-overlay/etc/config/network/network	Add EBcLfSA network configuration overlay content.
quality/integration_testing/images/ebclfsa_aarch64/BUILD	Add Bazel genrules to extract and produce EBcLfSA QEMU image/kernel artifacts.
quality/integration_testing/environments/ubuntu24_04_qemu/user-data	Update cloud-init template to the new rendered/user-data flow.
quality/integration_testing/environments/ubuntu24_04_qemu/qemu_config.json	Update QEMU config keys to match ITF expectations (qemu_machine).
quality/integration_testing/environments/ubuntu24_04_qemu/prepare_image.sh	Remove old local Ubuntu base-image preparation script.
quality/integration_testing/environments/ubuntu24_04_qemu/BUILD	Switch Ubuntu image build to ITF-provided scripts/rendering.
quality/integration_testing/environments/ebclfsa_aarch64_qemu/qemu_config.json	Add EBcLfSA aarch64 QEMU config (machine + kernel cmdline).
quality/integration_testing/environments/ebclfsa_aarch64_qemu/BUILD	Add EBcLfSA environment exports + aliases to image/kernel.
MODULE.bazel.lock	Update Bzlmod lockfile (needs regeneration consistency with overrides).
MODULE.bazel	Add score_itf git override + patch; add EBcLfSA fastdev image http_file.
.github/workflows/build_and_test_host.yml	Install additional QEMU/libguestfs deps and adjust runner permissions for supermin.
.devcontainer/Dockerfile	Add QEMU/libguestfs/kernel-related packages for local dev/testing parity.

Suppressed comments (1)

quality/integration_testing/environments/ubuntu24_04_qemu/user-data:60

• passwd -d root does not reliably unlock the root account on Ubuntu cloud images (it can remain locked even with an empty password). Add an explicit unlock (passwd -u root) to ensure the ITF SSH checks can authenticate.

      passwd -d root
      grep -q 'pam_unix\.so.*nullok' /etc/pam.d/common-auth ||
          sed -i 's/\(pam_unix\.so\)/\1 nullok/' /etc/pam.d/common-auth

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[lurtz]

Still unsure if the chosen method to copy files into images will stay due to kernel requirement.