fix(kubeovn): retry VM migration setup after scheduling - #4253

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`@packages/system/kubeovn/images/kubeovn/patches/fix-vmim-scheduling-retry.diff`:
- Around line 7-20: The missing-target-pod branch in
handleAddOrUpdateVMIMigration currently returns nil and drops the event; change
it to return a retryable error so processNextWorkItem requeues the migration
until the target pod appears. Preserve existing behavior for other branches, and
add the missing-target-pod scenario to the regression test.

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LGTM (independent cozy-review pass).

Root cause is verified against upstream v1.15.10: the VMIM queue is fed only by VMIM events, and target-pod / node-assignment changes do not re-enqueue, so a return nil during Scheduling drops the event forever and the VM is left without network setup on the target node. Patch 1 is a clean backport of accepted upstream kube-ovn#6834; patch 2 is a symmetric cozystack-original that closes the "target pod not yet in cache" race (error -> rate-limited requeue, not a busy loop). The Makefile build: addition is necessary and correct (the image was never built before), and the go test runs at docker-build time so the regression cannot silently rot.

Caveats (non-blocking): the committed digest is still the pre-patch ref and gets stamped by the overlay build after merge; live-migration is not exercised in CI — recommend a cozystack-pr-test run.

LGTM — the backport is byte-identical to the upstream commit it names, both patches apply in the order the Dockerfile applies them, and the Go test is a real build gate rather than coverage on paper.

Business context: Kube-OVN drops VM live-migration network setup when it sees the migration in Scheduling before the target Pod or its node is known, which deadlocks the migration; this backports the upstream fix onto the pinned v1.15.10 image and adds a second guard for a related target-Pod race.

I checked this against a clean v1.15.10 clone instead of reading the diffs. All three patches in images/kubeovn/patches/ apply in a single git apply in glob order, which is what the Dockerfile runs, and --check --whitespace=error passes too. fix-vmim-scheduling-retry.diff is byte-identical to the diff GitHub returns for a229dec3d5150f55ca8344d0e296a8a02d52b726, the merge commit of kubeovn/kube-ovn#6834, hunk header included. The removal note is exact as well: v1.15.13 does not carry the fix, v1.15.14 does.

fix-vmim-target-pod-retry.diff really is not upstream. Both release-1.15 and master still have klog.Warningf(...) followed by return nil in that branch, so "keep until an equivalent guard is verified upstream" is accurate today. It holds up on its own merits: the queue gets DefaultTypedControllerRateLimiter (the nil argument to newTypedRateLimitingQueue is substituted with it), so the returned error requeues on 5ms-to-1000s exponential backoff instead of spinning, and every other error path in the same handler already returns that way. The condition also clears itself, either the Pod shows up or the phase leaves Scheduling and a different branch returns nil.

The test file is not inert. The Dockerfile copies it to pkg/controller/kubevirt_migration_test.go and runs it before make build-go, so a regression fails the image build, and -run '^TestVMIMigrationSchedulingRetry$' anchors the parent function so all six subtests execute. I ran that exact command in golang:1.26-bookworm against the patched tree and got 6/6. Dropping either patch fails only the cases it owns: without the target-Pod guard only target_pod_not_created goes red, without the backport only the three node cases do, and already_scheduled and same_node stay green in every configuration.

On the matrix change, reverting the Makefile line makes the new bats case fail and nothing else, and hack/build-matrix.sh then returns [] for a kubeovn patch path, so the empty-matrix claim holds when measured. The file runs 19 tests against 19 @test declarations with no early exit, and the new case adds no EXIT trap, so its declared trap count still matches.

Non-blocking follow-ups

1. The body says the guard was "identified during review" and closes with "Ready for review.". This repo merges with merge_commit_message: PR_BODY, so the body becomes the merge commit message verbatim and both phrases go into git log with it. The surrounding sentences read fine without them.
2. I could not find an upstream report for the target-Pod race; #6823 covers the scheduling case only and is closed by #6834. Filing it upstream is what makes the second patch deletable rather than carried indefinitely.
3. Nothing has built the image on this PR. The fork workflows are still waiting on maintainer approval, so the green checks are DCO, label, size and the bot. The build gate is real, CI just has not exercised it here, and the numbers above come from my own local run.