This PR makes the necesary adaptations to the tests and adds a power shell script to
invoke the OS tests on GCP instances connected as CI workers.
Also noticed that logs were not being produced by the tests and that theses were not using log4j so fixed that too.
One of the difficulties in working on theses tests was that the tests just stalled with no indication where the problem is.
To ease with the debugging, after process explorer suggested that the tests are running some commands, we now have multiple timeouts: one for the tests ( which will generate a thread dump ) and one for individual commands ( that bails with the command being ran and output and error so far ) to make it easier to see what went wrong.
The tests were blocking because apparently the pipes to the sub-process were not closing, thus the threads were blocking on them and we were blocking indefinitely on the join. I'm not sure why this doesn't happen in vagrant, but we now properly deal with it.
Alpar Torok