It's currently alsways "nixos", which leads to various schemes of
renaming the resulting files in virtualisation/*-image.nix files as
well as further downstream, outside of nixpkgs.
config.boot.loader.grub.device is just an alias that gets assigned to config.boot.loader.grub.devices.
If config.boot.loader.grub.device is set to null, it will fail with the following error
as described in https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators/issues/339
systemd-boot-builder.py calls nix-env --list-generations which creates
$HOME/.nix-defexpr/channels/nixos if it doesn't exist. This would cause a folder
/homeless-shelter to show up in the final image which in turn breaks nix builds
in the target image if sandboxing is turned off (as /homeless-shelter is never
allowed to exist).
This commit is a fixup for a regression introduced by
0bdba6c99b.
Before the regression, it was possible to build images without grub or a
kernel (e.g. to boot other kernels with qemu -kernel.
After the regression, such images fail to build. Since
config.boog.loader.grub.enable is false in that scenario, grub.device is
emptystring. While this happens not to be an issue of `ln`, `dirname`
fails on emptystring.
With this change, we guard both commands to only be run when grub is
actually enabled. Images with and without grub succesfully build with
this change.
This change removes the bespoke logic around identifying block devices.
Instead of trying to find the right device by iterating over
`qemu.drives` and guessing the right partition number (e.g.
/dev/vda{1,2}), devices are now identified by persistent names provided
by udev in /dev/disk/by-*.
Before this change, the root device was formatted on demand in the
initrd. However, this makes it impossible to use filesystem identifiers
to identify devices. Now, the formatting step is performed before the VM
is started. Because some tests, however, rely on this behaviour, a
utility function to replace this behaviour in added in
/nixos/tests/common/auto-format-root-device.nix.
Devices that contain neither a partition table nor a filesystem are
identified by their hardware serial number which is injecetd via QEMU
(and is thus persistent and predictable). PCI paths are not a reliably
way to identify devices because their availability and numbering depends
on the QEMU machine type.
This change makes the module more robust against changes in QEMU and the
kernel (non-persistent device naming) and by decoupling abstractions
(i.e. rootDevice, bootPartition, and bootLoaderDevice) enables further
improvement down the line.
`make-disk-image` is a tool for creating VM images. It takes an argument
`contents` that allows one to specify files and directories that should
be copied into the VM image. However, directories end up not at the
specified target, but instead at a subdirectory of the target, with a
nix-store-like path, e.g.
`/target/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-source`. See issue
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/226203 .
This change adds a test for make-disk-image's contents directory
handling and adds a fix (appending `/` to rsync input directory names).
This closes issue https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/226203 .
- Extensive documentation in NixOS manual
- Deterministic mode that fixes various identifiers relative to disk
partitions and filesystems in ext4 case
- UEFI variable recording
Add a copyChannel argument which controls whether the current source
tree will be made available as a nix channel in the image or
not. Previously, it always was. Making it available is useful for
interactive use of nix utils, but changes the hash of the image when
the sources are updated.
The disk image calculator was using find + exec forking du for every
file in the disk image, making it very slow. Change du to accept files,
nul delimeted on stdin to speed it back up.
Before change:
nix-build nixos/tests/image-contents.nix 9.71s user 1.06s system 8% cpu 2:13.11 total
After change:
nix-build nixos/tests/image-contents.nix 9.93s user 1.23s system 21% cpu 51.601 total
Work around missing /dev files inside runInLinuxVM by creating a
symlink before calling nixos-enter.
This fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/93381.
I ran into this issue when trying to create a VMware image that boots from EFI.
Thanks @colemickens for reporting this and @danielfullmer for fixing the same thing in in qemu-vm.nix (37676e77cb) and explaining what the issue was.
This ensures the following gptfdisk warning won't happen:
```
Warning: File size is not a multiple of 512 bytes! Misbehavior is likely!
```
Additionally, helps towards aligning the partition to be more optimal
for the underlying storage.
It is actually impossible to align for the actual underlying storage
optimally because we don't know what the block device will be!
But aligning on 1MiB should help.
This is a bit of a thorny issue. See, the actual `diskSize` variable is
for the *total* disk size, not for the filesystem!
The automatic numbers are meant to compute the *filesystem* required
space. So we have to add any other reserved space!
We have different requirements for reserved space. E.g. there could be
none (when it's actually a filesystem image). There could also be 1MiB
for alignment for an MBR image, legacy+gpt needs 2MiB, then GPT with an
ESP ("bootSize") needs to take the boot partition and GPT size into
account too!
Though luckily(?) for this latter situation we can cheat! As noted in the
change, `bootSize` is NOT the boot partition size. It is actually the
offset where the target filesystem starts.
Reserved space includes:
- inodes space in use (2 blocks per)
- about 5.2% of the space
The 5.2% reserved space was computed empirically when working on a
previous EXT4 image builder. It seems to stabilize around 5% even for
much larger filesystems.
On some filesystems, `du` without `--apparent-size` will not give the
actual size for a file. Using `--apparent-size` will give us the actual
file size.
Though, this is not actually correct still. 1000 × 1 bytes is not 1000
bytes. It is 1000 × ceil(filesize/blockSize)*blockSize.
So instead of adding up the actual file sizes. We are adding up the
block sizes.
Note that this also changes the builder to work with *bytes*, rather
than with any other units. Doing maths on bytes is less likely to go
awry than doing it on other units.
This was broken in 460c0d6 (PR #90431); now the nixos-unstable channel
should get unblocked.
vcunat modified this commit to use env-var instead of hardcoding /build
This reverts commit e9bf955fd6. We use
nixos-install to ensure that make-disk-image produces the same result
as a regular installation (9802da517f)
and to reduce code duplication. If there is something broken in
nixos-install, it should be fixed there.
Because the copy process inside the VM does not reliably
give "No space" error message leaving the user wondering what
went wrong:
unable to create directory /mnt/0000fe01///nix/store/yknzxx7w2ck9p30k81gpi5yfjlrq41lr-libsecret-0.18.7/share/locale/ro: Success
[ 5.462365] reboot: Restarting system
error processing entry /build/root/nix/store/yknzxx7w2ck9p30k81gpi5yfjlrq41lr-libsecret-0.18.7/share/locale/ro, aborting
error processing entry /build/root/nix/store/yknzxx7w2ck9p30k81gpi5yfjlrq41lr-libsecret-0.18.7/share/locale, aborting
error processing entry /build/root/nix/store/yknzxx7w2ck9p30k81gpi5yfjlrq41lr-libsecret-0.18.7/share, aborting
error processing entry /build/root/nix/store/yknzxx7w2ck9p30k81gpi5yfjlrq41lr-libsecret-0.18.7, aborting
error processing entry /build/root/nix/store, aborting
error processing entry /build/root/nix, aborting
builder for '/nix/store/fsdvqxq92iai7f3w8wcsncgfwag7cj2l-libvirtd-ssh-image.drv' failed with exit code 228
cleanSource does not appear to work correctly in this case. The path
does not get coerced to a string, resulting in a dangling symlink
produced in channel.nix. Not sure why, but this
seems to fix it.
Fixes#51025.
/cc @elvishjericco
- Add a new parameter `imageType` that can specify either "efi" or
"legacy" (the default which should see no change in behaviour by
this patch).
- EFI images get a GPT partition table (instead of msdos) with a
mandatory ESP partition (so we add an assert that `partitioned`
is true).
- Use the partx tool from util-linux to determine exact start + size
of the root partition. This is required because GPT stores a secondary
partition table at the end of the disk, so we can't just have
mkfs.ext4 create the filesystem until the end of the disk.
- (Unrelated to any EFI changes) Since we're depending on the
`-E offset=X` option to mkfs which is only supported by e2fsprogs,
disallow any attempts of creating partitioned disk images where
the root filesystem is not ext4.
