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Lluís Batlle i Rossell 9002335101 Making nixos handle the nixpkgs 'platform' parameter.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=20274
2010-02-27 18:37:12 +00:00
Rob Vermaas d79d934d85 move functions to lib/testing to allow easier use outside of nixos
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=20072
2010-02-17 09:37:22 +00:00
Lluís Batlle i Rossell 1dd3162d7c First attempt at trying to get a tarball of a bootable nixos system.
What I want with this derivation is to allow the sheevaplug nixos to
build a tarball with all the needed files to boot. Then, this can be
unpacked into an SD card, or into a NFS/TFTP server, and then the
user can boot the system with help of the uboot console.
By now, I have only tried to build the tarball in a PC, in order
to develop the nix expressions quicker.

There is nothing written specialy for the Sheevaplug in all this,
by now.


svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=20035
2010-02-15 23:27:51 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 55c349fe20 * Added a test that checks whether users can log in on a virtual
console.  This uses the `sendkey' command in the QEMU monitor.
* For the block/unblock primitives, use the `set_link' command in the
  QEMU monitor.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19854
2010-02-06 13:08:15 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra fc805fe541 * In the test driver, connect to the QEMU monitor so that we can send
it special commands such as "screendump", "sendkey" and so on.
* Take screenshots using the "screendump" command.  This has the
  advantage over "scrot" that it also supports taking a picture of the
  console, and is not affected by weird X visuals.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19837
2010-02-05 16:51:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5b60c280d7 * Make the Quake 3 test less timing-sensitive.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19816
2010-02-04 13:59:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 160b28baa0 * Increase the timeout.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19708
2010-01-27 12:46:53 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra fc583b7054 * When QEMU encounters a "disk full" condition on the host filesystem,
its default behaviour is to stop the emulator (i.e. suspend the VM).
  For automated tests, this is bad, because is makes the VM appear to
  hang without any error message.  The "werror=report" flag causes
  QEMU to report the problem to the VM.  As a side effect QEMU exits
  very elegantly:

    [    2.308668] end_request: I/O error, dev vda, sector 534400
    [    2.309611] Buffer I/O error on device vda, logical block 66800
    ...
    *** glibc detected *** /nix/store/yhngqrww53j0aw7z7v4bv948x5g5fc3d-qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2/bin/qemu-system-x86_64: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x08e3e040 ***
    Aborted

  So I guess we now depend on a bug in QEMU :-)

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19703
2010-01-27 10:36:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4c2fe97acc * Always create hydra-build-products, otherwise the build is made
available as a one-click install which is not useful.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19296
2010-01-07 16:50:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ec3398e4b2 * Move the serial console kernel parameters to test-instrumentation.nix.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19275
2010-01-06 21:16:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra bffb5450e5 * Perform a full installation and boot from the installed system.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19274
2010-01-06 20:52:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra cbca2f72df * Put a timeout on all wait* actions.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19264
2010-01-06 15:14:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1b21115f61 * Support creating a virtual disk in the test driver.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19263
2010-01-06 14:37:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 816f12da88 * Test driver: added support for running from an ISO image. The goal
is to merge test-nixos-install-from-cd so that we have a single
  testing framework.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19259
2010-01-06 13:36:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra bc68c2985c * Added a function waitForX, which returns when the X server accepts
connections.
* In the root shell, source /etc/bashrc and set $HOME and $DISPLAY.  

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19247
2010-01-05 23:59:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5cc99487cb * A function to wait until a window exists.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19246
2010-01-05 23:38:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra bc238be01a * Factor out the X11 configuration.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19241
2010-01-05 17:08:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ff20b45486 * Don't buffer stderr.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19227
2010-01-05 11:43:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5af12b6afe * Provide a function for taking a screenshot.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19225
2010-01-05 11:35:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 51097933ab * Moved test-related stuff from lib/build-vms.nix to lib/testing.nix.
* Factored out some commonality between tests to make them a bit
  simpler to write.  A test is a function { pkgs, ... }: -> { nodes,
  testScript } or { machine, testScript }.  So it's no longer
  necessary to have a "vms" attribute in every test.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19220
2010-01-05 11:18:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ff86799d42 * Hm, Perl threads and lexical closures don't interact in the way
you'd expect...

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19214
2010-01-05 10:35:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 170331be30 * Don't use /hostfs to signal the test driver that a VM is up, but
write some magic string to ttyS0.  This removes the dependency on
  having a CIFS mount.
* Use a thread to process the stdout/stderr of each QEMU instance.
* Add a kernel command line parameter "stage1panic" to tell stage 1 to
  panic if an error occurs.  This is faster than waiting until
  connect() times out.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19212
2010-01-04 18:04:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5730c27aed * For debugging, if $tests is not set, read commands from stdin.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19210
2010-01-04 16:30:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 0ecac5a6f9 * Attach stdin to /dev/null, otherwise qemu grabs the terminal
(unpleasant for interactive testing of the test driver).

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19209
2010-01-04 16:30:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9aa0a336bc * Updated the coverage analysis handling for Linux 2.6.32. Gcov is
now merged in the kernel, and the gcda files are exported through
  debugfs in /sys/kernel/debug/gcov.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19207
2010-01-04 13:22:43 +00:00
Rob Vermaas 243bc84f08 ensure nix-support dir before running tests
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18938
2009-12-14 15:30:57 +00:00
Rob Vermaas ed6d8c6881 due to new upstart version, vm tests didn't work anymore
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18840
2009-12-08 11:41:21 +00:00
Nicolas Pierron 12401536fc Replace the check function with a function specialized for modules.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18821
2009-12-05 19:22:02 +00:00
Marc Weber 5cb52cc7cb nixos vms tests: use relative path to services, nixpkgs because this is more like to work if you don't put the repos in /etc/nixos/
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18330
2009-11-11 23:54:54 +00:00
Nicolas Pierron 10e9705a86 Replace optionDeclarations by options which is directly computed by
moduleMerge.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=17166
2009-09-15 14:09:18 +00:00
Nicolas Pierron dd40d6196b Use only one merge to compute option definitions and option declarations.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=17165
2009-09-15 14:09:11 +00:00
Nicolas Pierron 81ec373e1e Imports of imported attribute set are not working anymore because this
feature is hard to maintain and because this a potential source of error.

Imports are only accepted inside named modules where the system has some
control over mutual inclusion.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=17143
2009-09-15 00:18:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 2b5c9a78ff * Increase the timeout to deal with heavily loaded hosts.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=16952
2009-09-03 00:05:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c6d4282f25 svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=16950 2009-09-02 23:37:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 497760b444 * Use scrot to make screenshots.
* Another X11 test (running Quake 3).

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=16949
2009-09-02 23:16:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 05cb34c6d0 svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=16942 2009-09-02 19:59:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra cddc93cc5e * Start of a simple GUI test. Right now it just starts the X server,
wait a few seconds and makes a screenshot.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=16934
2009-09-02 14:48:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 486714bfcc * Make the coverage report more concise.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=16926
2009-09-02 09:38:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 137c5c65bd * Added a timeout for starting the VM. TODO: handle SIGCHLD from
qemu.
* Do the subversion test on i686-linux.  

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=16923
2009-09-02 08:36:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra b1aa227cbd * Use -no-reboot, otherwise kernel panics cause QEMU to get into an
infinite loop trying to start the machine.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=16922
2009-09-02 07:52:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e7acca2ba3 * Cleanup the kernel coverage analysis.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=16919
2009-09-01 22:50:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4d8d704fba * Run the subversion.nix test with coverage analysis on the kernel.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=16917
2009-09-01 22:22:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9359bf11d5 * Build the Subversion test in Hydra (as a regression test for NixOS).
* Pass the location to the services tree around instead of requiring
  it to be in ../services.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=16901
2009-08-31 14:56:19 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 27a8e656bc * Stuff for automatic and manual testing of NixOS VMs.
lib/build-vms.nix contains a function `buildVirtualNetwork' that
  takes a specification of a network of machines (as an attribute set
  of NixOS machine configurations) and builds a script that starts
  each configuration in a separate QEMU/KVM VM and connects them
  together in a virtual network.  This script can be run manually to
  test the VMs interactively.  There is also a function `runTests'
  that starts and runs the virtual network in a derivation, and
  then executes a test specification that tells the VMs to do certain
  things (i.e., letting one VM send an HTTP request to a webserver on
  another VM).  The tests are written in Perl (for now).

  tests/subversion.nix shows a simple example, namely a network of two
  machines: a webserver that runs the Subversion subservice, and a
  client.  Apache, Subversion and a few other packages are built with
  coverage analysis instrumentation.  For instance,

    $ nix-build tests/subversion.nix -A vms
    $ ./result/bin/run-vms

  starts two QEMU/KVM instances.  When they have finished booting, the
  webserver can be accessed from the host through
  http://localhost:8081/.

  It also has a small test suite:

    $ nix-build tests/subversion.nix -A report

  This runs the VMs in a derivation, runs the tests, and then produces
  a distributed code coverage analysis report (i.e. it shows the
  combined coverage on both machines).

  The Perl test driver program is in lib/test-driver.  It executes
  commands on the guest machines by connecting to a root shell running
  on port 514 (provided by modules/testing/test-instrumentation.nix).

  The VMs are connected together in a virtual network using QEMU's
  multicast feature.  This isn't very secure.  At the very least,
  other processes on the same machine can listen to or send packets on
  the virtual network.  On the plus side, we don't need to be root to
  set up a multicast virtual network, so we can do it from a
  derivation.  Maybe we can use VDE instead.

  (Moved from the vario repository.)

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=16899
2009-08-31 14:25:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 2892aed712 * lib/eval-config.nix: combined "configuration" and "extraModules"
into one argument "modules".
* release.nix: fixed the manual job.
* ISO generation: break an infinite recursion.  Don't know why this
  suddenly happens.  Probably because of the nixpkgs.config change,
  but I don't see why.  Maybe the option evaluation is too strict.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=16878
2009-08-27 11:57:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f1b1aefde * Added an option `nixpkgs.config' that allows the Nixpkgs options to
be set from the NixOS configuration.  For instance, you can say

    nixpkgs.config.firefox.enableGeckoMediaPlayer = true;

    environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.firefox ];

  but the more interesting application is to apply global overrides to
  Nixpkgs throughout NixOS, e.g.

    nixpkgs.config.packageOverrides = pkgs:
      { glibc = pkgs.glibc27;
        gcc = pkgs.gcc42;
      };

  would build the whole system with Glibc 2.7 and GCC 4.2.  (There are
  some issues with "useFromStdenv" in all-packages.nix that need to be
  fixed for packages in the stdenv bootstrap though.)

  The implementation of this option is kind of evil though due to the
  need to prevent a circularity between the evaluation of
  nixpkgs.config and the "pkgs" module argument.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=16866
2009-08-26 16:52:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4d72704d77 svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=16799 2009-08-21 09:11:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f1035de47c * For the generation of manual / manpages, don't evaluate the option
declarations again (because we already have them).  This cuts
  evaluation time from 7.2s to 4.9s.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=16798
2009-08-21 09:08:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 89ef5c979b * New nixos-rebuild action: "nixos-rebuild build-vm" builds a virtual
machine containing a replica (minus the state) of the system
  configuration.  This is mostly useful for testing configuration
  changes prior to doing an actual "nixos-rebuild switch" (or even
  "nixos-rebuild test").  The VM can be started as follows:

  $ nixos-rebuild build-vm
  $ ./result/bin/run-*-vm

  which starts a KVM/QEMU instance.  Additional QEMU options can be
  passed through the QEMU_OPTS environment variable
  (e.g. QEMU_OPTS="-redir tcp:8080::80" to forward a host port to the
  guest).  The fileSystem attribute of the regular system
  configuration is ignored (using mkOverride), because obviously we
  can't allow the VM to access the host's block devices.  Instead, at
  startup the VM creates an empty disk image in ./<hostname>.qcow2 to
  store the VM's root filesystem.

  Building a VM in this way is efficient because the VM shares its Nix
  store with the host (through a CIFS mount).  However, because the
  Nix store of the host is mounted read-only in the guest, you cannot
  run Nix build actions inside the VM.  Therefore the VM can only be
  reconfigured by re-running "nixos-rebuild build-vm" on the host and
  restarting the VM.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=16662
2009-08-11 01:35:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a9071b3283 svn path=/nixos/branches/modular-nixos/; revision=16592 2009-08-05 14:43:13 +00:00