These are usually set up by systemd, but there's no systemd in the
VM. /dev/fd is required for <(...) syntax in bash, and I'm sure lots
of things depend on the stdin/stdout/stderr links as well.
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.
The `platform` field is pointless nesting: it's just stuff that happens
to be defined together, and that should be an implementation detail.
This instead makes `linux-kernel` and `gcc` top level fields in platform
configs. They join `rustc` there [all are optional], which was put there
and not in `platform` in anticipation of a change like this.
`linux-kernel.arch` in particular also becomes `linuxArch`, to match the
other `*Arch`es.
The next step after is this to combine the *specific* machines from
`lib.systems.platforms` with `lib.systems.examples`, keeping just the
"multiplatform" ones for defaulting.
Originally this was meant to support other Windows versions than just
Windows XP, but before I actually got a chance to implement this I left
the project that I implemented this for.
The code has been broken for years now and I highly doubt anyone is
interested in resurrecting this (including me), so in order to make this
less of a maintenance burden for everybody, let's remove it.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
xchg is advertised as a bidirectional exchange dir, but file content
transfer from host to VM fails due to caching:
If a file is read in the VM and then modified on the host, subsequent
re-reads in the VM can yield old, cached data.
This is caused by the use of 9p's cache=loose mode that is explicitly
meant for read-only mounts.
9p doesn't provide any suitable cache modes, so fix this by disabling
caching.
Also, remove a now unnecessary sync in the test driver.
When updating to cpio-2.13 in fe758f5fa3,
a patch from SUSE was dropped. This patch was intended to resolve
CVE-2015-1197, and introduced the '--extract-over-symlink' option to
disable its own effects.
The CVE-2015-1197 was fixed in cpio-2.13 release[1] by other means,
making this patch useless.
Given that this patch is no longer used, we do not need to disable its
effects anymore with the `--extract-over-symlink` argument switch.
This Commit fixes#74984
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-11/msg00002.html
There is a function params `kernel' intended to specify which kernel to use.
It defaults to `pkgs.linux`.
But when we override `kernel', compiling and using two kernels seems not to be the intendend bevavior.
This reverts commit f777d2b719.
cc #34409
This breaks evaluation of the tested job:
attribute 'diskInterface' missing, at /nix/store/5k9kk52bv6zsvsyyvpxhm8xmwyn2yjvx-source/pkgs/build-support/vm/default.nix:316:24
Previously the Release.xz URL would show up with a new hash whenever
debian releases an update. By using archive.org we should have a stable
source for those. I wasn't able to find the equivalent in the debian
world. Maybe they don't keep all the different Release files around..
With the recent update of BusyBox to version 1.29.0 in
d6aa506e3b there is now a new dependency
on libresolv.
This now throws a runtime error when executing ash, eg. whenever we do
something like this:
nix-build -E 'with import ./. {}; vmTools.runInLinuxVM hello'
The resulting error will be:
.../ash: error while loading shared libraries: libresolv.so.2: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
I tried to override BusyBox with enableStatic, but that still requires
parts of glibc:
Static linking against glibc, can't use --gc-sections
Trying libraries: crypt m resolv
Library crypt is not needed, excluding it
Library m is needed, can't exclude it (yet)
Library resolv is needed, can't exclude it (yet)
Library m is needed, can't exclude it (yet)
Library resolv is needed, can't exclude it (yet)
Final link with: m resolv
In the long term maybe switching to a more minimal C library such as
musl would make more sense, but for now I just added libresolv.so to the
initrd which fixes the runtime error.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
Cc: @edolstra, @rbvermaa
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
