This has a number of benefits such as that applying service limits will
actually work since there isn't a layer of indirection (the Docker daemon)
between the systemd service and the container runtime.
We need to move NixOS containers somewhere else so these don't clash
with Podman, Skopeo & other container software in the libpod &
cri-o/cri-u/libcontainer ecosystems.
The state directory move is not strictly a requirement but is good for
consistency.
Otherwise, starting this daemon fails with the message
```
virtchd[3484224]: Initialization of mandatory cloud-hypervisor state driver skipped
virtchd[3484224]: Driver state initialization failed
```
Fixes#167850
using freeform is the new standard way of using modules and should replace
extraConfig.
In particular, this will allow us to place a condition on mails
* With the upgrade to waydroid to 1.2.0, dependencies that previously
were shipped in the service's path have been moved to the waydroid
package.
* Make sure /var/lib/misc exists when starting waydroid. As required
by dnsmasq
While doing kernel development with the nixos testing infrastructure, it
is useful to quickly compile the kernel on the side and boot it in the testing VM.
This patch allows overriding the kernel through the environment
variable. For example, the following:
$ NIXPKGS_QEMU_KERNEL_testvm=$LINUX_SRC/arch/x86/boot/bzImage $VM/bin/nixos-test-driver
runs testvm testing VM with the fresh kernel compiled in $LINUX_SRC.
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
As a novice to using this module, I found the existing description to be
quite misleading. It does not at all disable pulling from the registry,
it just loads some image archive that may or may not be related to the
container you're specifying. I had thought there was extra magic behind
this option, but it's just a `docker load`. You need foreknowledge of
the contents of the archive so that whatever it contained is actually
used to run the container.
I've reworded the description to hopefully make this behavior clearer.
LXC containers like those used by VPSAdminOS might want to install a bootloader
so passing `true` to `system.build.installBootLoader` without any priority specified,
causes a conflict for such systems with the recent `system.build` changes:
4014fb6a64
Fixes: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/155839
link to search.nixos.org instead of pulling package metadata out of pkgs. this
lets us cache docs of a few more modules and provides easier access to package
info from the HTML manual, but makes the manpage slightly less useful since
package description are no longer rendered.
most modules can be evaluated for their documentation in a very
restricted environment that doesn't include all of nixpkgs. this
evaluation can then be cached and reused for subsequent builds, merging
only documentation that has changed into the cached set. since nixos
ships with a large number of modules of which only a few are used in any
given config this can save evaluation a huge percentage of nixos
options available in any given config.
in tests of this caching, despite having to copy most of nixos/, saves
about 80% of the time needed to build the system manual, or about two
second on the machine used for testing. build time for a full system
config shrank from 9.4s to 7.4s, while turning documentation off
entirely shortened the build to 7.1s.
by default a ps/2 keyboard input is used which seems to cause issues
on aarch64-linux when the machine is used high load, causing the keymap
qwertz test to always fail and azerty to sometimes fail
See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/147294
some options have default that are best described in prose, such as
defaults that depend on the system stateVersion, defaults that are
derivations specific to the surrounding context, or those where the
expression is much longer and harder to understand than a simple text
snippet.
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 e791519f0f ("nixos/qemu-vm: use qemu_kvm"), VMs generated with
nixos-rebuild build-vm use the qemu_kvm package instead of the qemu
package. (The difference between them is that qemu_kvm is only built
with support for the host architecture, not all architectures.)
But with this change, nixos-rebuild build-vm would now depend on
_both_ QEMUs, because the guest agent module was still using the one
from the full QEMU package. There's no need for it to use this
instead of the lighter qemu_kvm, because the guest agent shouldn't be
affected by which platforms QEMU can emulate.
The default has been unchanged for a decade. Space is cheaper and
software catches up with that. Let's not make our testing harder
than necessary by default.
qemu_kvm is only built for one architecture, so it's smaller and takes
MUCH less time to build if it has to be built from source. And this
module doesn't support running a VM for one architecture from another
architecture, so the one architecture is all we'll need.
pathsInNixDB isn't a very accurate name when a Nix store image is
built (virtualisation.useNixStoreImage); rename it to additionalPaths,
which should be general enough to cover both cases.
Add the `useNixStoreImage` option, allowing a disk image with the
necessary contents from the Nix store to be built using
make-disk-image.nix. The image will be mounted at `/nix/store` and
acts as a drop-in replacement for the usual 9p mounting of the host's
Nix store.
This removes the performance penalty of 9p, drastically improving
execution speed of applications which do lots of reads from the Nix
store. The caveats are increased disk space usage and image build
time.
The headless option broke with 7d8b303e3f
because the path /bin/vmware-user-suid-wrapper does not exist in the
headless variant of the open-vm-tools package.
Since the vmblock fuse mount and vmware-user-suid-wrapper seem to only
be used for shared folders and drag and drop, they should not exist in
the vmware-guest module if it is configured as headless.
Move all `virtualisation.libvirtd.qemu*` options to a
`virtualisation.libvirtd.qemu` submodule.
Also for consistency, add `virtualisation.libvirtd.qemu.swtpm.package`
(only new option during this refactor.)
I realized quite recently that running a test VM - as documented in the
manual - like
QEMU_NET_OPTS='hostfwd=tcp::8080-:80' ./result/bin/nixos-run-vms
doesn't work anymore on `master`. After bisecting I realized that the
introduction of a forward-port option[1] is the problem since it adds a
trailing comma even if no forwarding options are specified via
`virtualisation.forwardPorts`. In that case, the networking options
would look like `-netdev user,id=user.0,,hostfwd=tcp::8080-:80' which
confused QEMU and thus the VM refused to start.
Now, the trailing comma is only added if additional port forwards are
specified declaratively.
[1] b8bfc81d5b
The current name is misleading: it doesn't contain cli arguments,
but several constants and utility functions related to qemu.
This commit also removes the use of `with import ...` for clarity.
Introduce an AWS EC2 AMI which supports aarch64 and x86_64 with a ZFS
root.
This uses `make-zfs-image` which implies two EBS volumes are needed
inside EC2, one for boot, one for root. It should not matter which
is identified `xvda` and which is `xvdb`, though I have always
uploaded `boot` as `xvda`.
