testing: skip upgrade tests on LXD VMs (#980)

The issues we see on Bionic VMs don't appear anywhere else, including
when invoking kvm directly. It likely has to do with the extra
LXD agent setup happening on bionic. Given that we still have Bionic
covered on all other platforms, the risk of skipping bionic for LXD VM
tests seems low.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tests/integration_tests/test_upgrade.py b/tests/integration_tests/test_upgrade.py
index 5c7a2e1e..376fcc96 100644
--- a/tests/integration_tests/test_upgrade.py
+++ b/tests/integration_tests/test_upgrade.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import logging
 import os
 import pytest
 
-from tests.integration_tests.clouds import IntegrationCloud
+from tests.integration_tests.clouds import ImageSpecification, IntegrationCloud
 from tests.integration_tests.conftest import get_validated_source
 
 
@@ -45,6 +45,15 @@ def test_clean_boot_of_upgraded_package(session_cloud: IntegrationCloud):
     if not source.installs_new_version():
         pytest.skip(UNSUPPORTED_INSTALL_METHOD_MSG.format(source))
         return  # type checking doesn't understand that skip raises
+    if (ImageSpecification.from_os_image().release == 'bionic' and
+            session_cloud.settings.PLATFORM == 'lxd_vm'):
+        # The issues that we see on Bionic VMs don't appear anywhere
+        # else, including when calling KVM directly. It likely has to
+        # do with the extra lxd-agent setup happening on bionic.
+        # Given that we still have Bionic covered on all other platforms,
+        # the risk of skipping bionic here seems low enough.
+        pytest.skip("Upgrade test doesn't run on LXD VMs and bionic")
+        return
 
     launch_kwargs = {
         'image_id': session_cloud.released_image_id,