to run the VMs of a test. Instead, you can do
$ nix-build tests -A foo.driver
$ ./result/bin/nixos-run-vms
This uses the test driver infrastructure, which is necessary in
order to set up the VDE switches.
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together into virtual networks. This has several advantages:
- It's more secure because the QEMU instances use Unix domain
sockets to talk to the switch.
- It doesn't depend on the host's network interfaces. (Local
multicast fails if there is no default gateway, so for instance it
fails if a laptop is not connected to any network.)
- VDE devices can be connected together to form arbitrary network
topologies.
- VDE has a "wirefilter" tool to emulate delays and packet loss,
which are useful for network testing.
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is now made available in the interactive test driver. For instance,
you can do
$ nix-build tests/ -A quake3.driver
$ ./result/bin/nixos-test-driver
> eval $ENV{'testScript'};
... see VMs + X11 + Quake get started, bots running around ...
>
So after this you can run commands interactively on the VMs in the
state they were in after the conclusion of the test script.
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interactively on a network specification. For instance:
$ nix-build tests/ -A quake3.driver
$ ./result/bin/nixos-test-driver
> startAll;
client1: starting vm
client1: QEMU running (pid 14971)
server: starting vm
server: QEMU running (pid 14982)
...
> $client1->execute("quake3 ...");
* Use the GNU readline library in interactive mode.
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function argument, so that the test script can refer to computed
values such as the assigned IP addresses of the virtual machines.
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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.
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* 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.
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