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Previously the driver was configured exclusively through convoluted environment variables. Now the driver's defaults are configured through env variables. Some additional concerns are in the github comments of this PR.
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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-running-nixos-tests-interactively">
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<title>Running Tests interactively</title>
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<para>
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The test itself can be run interactively. This is particularly
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useful when developing or debugging a test:
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</para>
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<programlisting>
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$ nix-build nixos/tests/login.nix -A driverInteractive
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$ ./result/bin/nixos-test-driver --interactive
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starting VDE switch for network 1
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>
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</programlisting>
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<para>
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You can then take any Python statement, e.g.
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</para>
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<programlisting language="python">
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> start_all()
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> test_script()
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> machine.succeed("touch /tmp/foo")
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> print(machine.succeed("pwd")) # Show stdout of command
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</programlisting>
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<para>
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The function <literal>test_script</literal> executes the entire test
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script and drops you back into the test driver command line upon its
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completion. This allows you to inspect the state of the VMs after
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the test (e.g. to debug the test script).
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</para>
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<para>
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You can re-use the VM states coming from a previous run by setting
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the <literal>--keep-vm-state</literal> flag.
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</para>
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<programlisting>
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$ ./result/bin/nixos-test-driver --interactive --keep-vm-state
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</programlisting>
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<para>
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The machine state is stored in the
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<literal>$TMPDIR/vm-state-machinename</literal> directory.
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</para>
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</section>
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