diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a7bc4d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+name: CI
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: ["**"]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: ["**"]
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ["3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Setup Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+          cache: pip
+
+      - name: Install package with dev extras
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          # napalm-device-types lives in git.netork.io/NAPALM, not on PyPI: without this
+          # pip looks there, finds an unrelated 0.1.0 and the job dies before any test.
+          python -m pip install "napalm-device-types @ git+https://git.netork.io/NAPALM/napalm-device-types.git"
+          python -m pip install -e ".[dev]"
+
+      - name: Run unit tests
+        run: |
+          python -m pytest -q --tb=short
+
+      - name: Build wheel and sdist
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install build
+          python -m build
+
+      - name: Upload dist artifacts
+        # v4 refuses to run on Gitea ("not currently supported on GHES").
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: dist-${{ matrix.python-version }}
+          path: dist/*
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diff --git a/tests/test_vm_provision_mixin.py b/tests/test_vm_provision_mixin.py
index 0e5a487..ed9ad13 100644
--- a/tests/test_vm_provision_mixin.py
+++ b/tests/test_vm_provision_mixin.py
@@ -459,7 +459,13 @@ def test_destroy_vm_success():
 
 
 def test_destroy_vm_already_stopped():
-    """destroy_vm succeeds even if VM already stopped."""
+    """destroy_vm succeeds even if VM already stopped.
+
+    Proxmox refuses to stop a VM that is not running, so the stop call raises.
+    (A bare MagicMock as the stop task never reports "stopped": _wait_for_task
+    then spun for the full timeout with sleep patched out, and every recorded
+    mock call made the test take 60 s and several GB, enough for CI to kill it.)
+    """
     mixin = ProxmoxVMProvisionMixin()
 
     mock_node = MagicMock()
@@ -468,6 +474,7 @@ def test_destroy_vm_already_stopped():
     # Mock VM operations
     mock_vm = MagicMock()
     mock_node.qemu.return_value = mock_vm
+    mock_vm.status.stop.post.side_effect = Exception("VM 101 not running")
     mock_vm.config.get.return_value = {}
     mock_vm.delete.return_value = None