The underlying problem with OCR in this test has been that the only
font installed was DejaVu Sans, a proportional font, which xterm would
try to render as monospace. This produced very broken looking text,
which the OCR understandably had trouble with. With an actual
monospace font installed, there are no more problems and we don't need
the hacks.
the default hasn't been changed since 2009
this can improve our test performances
nixos/tests: remove explicit memorySize <1024
1024MiB is now the default
Since the update to wlroots 0.13 (e03dde82a7) the default VGA card
isn't supported anymore and we needed to switch to virtio (qxl didn't
work either). However, as it turned out "-vga virtio" (28b8cff301)
broke the test on AArch64. Luckily there's a third option that works on
all three supported platforms: virtio-gpu-pci
According to [0] "This device lacks VGA compatibility mode but is
otherwise identical to the virtio vga device. UEFI firmware can handle
this, and if your guests has drivers too you can use this instead of
virtio-vga. This will reduce the attack surface (no complex VGA
emulation support) and reduce the memory footprint by 8 MB (no pci
memory bar for VGA compatibility). This device can be placed in a PCI
Express slot."
So in the end this seems like the ideal choice :)
See also [1].
[0]: https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2019/09/display-devices-in-qemu/#virtio-gpu-pci
[1]: https://patches.openembedded.org/patch/164351/
See [0]: "QEMU_OPTS is something that should be set by people running VM
tests interactively, to do port forwardings etc.
We really should not poke with it from the test script - that's what
virtualisation.qemu.options is for."
[0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/119615#discussion_r624145020
Co-authored-by: Florian Klink <flokli@flokli.de>
See #119615 for more details. The aarch64-linux test failed with
"qemu-system-aarch64: Virtio VGA not available" so I've restricted the
test to x86_64-linux (the virtio paravirtualized 3D graphics driver is
likely only available on very few platforms).
The result still looks far from ideal but at least it gets recognized
now. "-fa Monospace" is required to switch to a font from the FreeType
library so that "-fs 24" works.
Note: Using linuxPackages_latest is not required anymore.
Add a cage module to nixos. This can be used to make kiosk-style
systems that boot directly to a single application. The user (demo by
default) is automatically logged in by this service and the
program (xterm by default) is automatically started.
This is useful for some embedded, single-user systems where we want
automatic booting. To keep the system secure, the user should have
limited privileges.
Based on the service provided in the Cage wiki here:
https://github.com/Hjdskes/cage/wiki/Starting-Cage-on-boot-with-systemd
Co-Authored-By: Florian Klink <flokli@flokli.de>
