diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5d3f46e5..b61d7d36 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -719,6 +719,9 @@ export TEST_LIBVIRT_HOST=$C1 TEST_LIBVIRT_TYPE=1 TEST_LIBVIRT_LOGIN=wvc TEST_LIB
 export TEST_LIBVIRT_SSH_HOST=$C2 TEST_LIBVIRT_SSH_LOGIN=root TEST_LIBVIRT_MIGRATE_ADDRESS=$C2 TEST_LIBVIRT_LVM_DEVICE=/dev/vdb TEST_LIBVIRT_ISCSI_TARGET=iqn.2026-10.test.wvc:lun TEST_LIBVIRT_NFS_EXPORT=/srv/wvc-nfs
 python manage.py test
 HOME=$PWD/.vagrant/tls TEST_LIBVIRT_TYPE=3 TEST_LIBVIRT_SSH_HOST= python manage.py test   # compute1 again, over TLS
+# a socket compute is the panel's own libvirt: the committed HEAD runs inside compute1
+git archive HEAD | vagrant ssh compute1 -c "sudo sh -c 'rm -rf /root/wvc && mkdir /root/wvc && tar -x -C /root/wvc'"
+vagrant ssh compute1 -c "sudo -i sh -ec 'dnf -y install python3-devel openldap-devel cyrus-sasl-devel gcc; cd /root/wvc; python3 -m venv --system-site-packages venv; venv/bin/pip install -r dev/requirements.txt; cp webvirtcloud/settings.py.template webvirtcloud/settings.py; mkdir data; venv/bin/python conf/runit/secret_generator.py > data/secret_key; TEST_LIBVIRT_HOST=localhost TEST_LIBVIRT_TYPE=4 TEST_LIBVIRT_LOGIN=wvc TEST_LIBVIRT_PASSWORD=wvc-test TEST_LIBVIRT_LVM_DEVICE=/dev/vdb TEST_LIBVIRT_ISCSI_TARGET=iqn.2026-10.test.wvc:lun TEST_LIBVIRT_NFS_EXPORT=/srv/wvc-nfs venv/bin/python manage.py test'"
 vagrant destroy -f
 ```