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@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ lxc init
 
 Follow the interactive prompts, use the defaults apart from the storage pool type, use `dir` type
 
-Configure ip table persistence
+Now configure ip table persistence, this is needed for the fixtures script to work but not for CI
 
 ```
 echo iptables-persistent iptables-persistent/autosave_v4 boolean true | sudo debconf-set-selections
@@ -147,22 +147,4 @@ cp /tmp/install-git-runner.sh /var/lib/lxd/containers/clmc-ci/rootfs/tmp
 chmod 755 /var/lib/lxd/containers/clmc-ci/rootfs/tmp
 ```
 
-
-
-The VM is started using a libvirt vagrant file through the following command:
-
-`VAGRANT_VAGRANTFILE=Vagrantfile.libvirt vagrant up`
-
-The VM has gitlab-runner installed::
-
-```
-VAGRANT_VAGRANTFILE=Vagrantfile.libvirt vagrant up
-VAGRANT_VAGRANTFILE=Vagrantfile.libvirt vagrant ssh -- -tt "sudo /vagrant/scripts/test/install-git-runner.sh"
-```
-
-Runners can be installed on developers virtualbox VMs if necessary, in that case you can just use
-
-```
-vagrant up
-vagrant ssh -- -tt "sudo /vagrant/scripts/test/install-git-runner.sh"
-```
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+Note that the branch must be "protected" for the secret repo rc variables to be passed to the CI script
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