the conversion procedure is simple:
- find all things that look like options, ie calls to either `mkOption`
or `lib.mkOption` that take an attrset. remember the attrset as the
option
- for all options, find a `description` attribute who's value is not a
call to `mdDoc` or `lib.mdDoc`
- textually convert the entire value of the attribute to MD with a few
simple regexes (the set from mdize-module.sh)
- if the change produced a change in the manual output, discard
- if the change kept the manual unchanged, add some text to the
description to make sure we've actually found an option. if the
manual changes this time, keep the converted description
this procedure converts 80% of nixos options to markdown. around 2000
options remain to be inspected, but most of those fail the "does not
change the manual output check": currently the MD conversion process
does not faithfully convert docbook tags like <code> and <package>, so
any option using such tags will not be converted at all.
This avoids putting a large disk image in the store (and possibly
in a binary cache), while improving runtime performance.
Assuming you're running an SSD, and/or with plenty of cache (?)
it is feasible to preempt the virtualization overhead before
VM start, in single-digit seconds.
For some tests that perform many reads on the store, the improved
performance of EROFS is sufficient that not only the image creation
overhead is compensated for, but is actually faster.
Stats for nixosTests.gitlab:
Baseline without useNixStoreImage: >1000s
Baseline with useNixStoreImage without writableStore = false
ext4 image in store: 277 seconds
+ significant image build time and/or disk space
Disposable erofs image: 249 seconds _including_ image build time
Custom erofs overlay on 9p host store: 391 seconds; presumably
because the overlay still performs too many 9p accesses, or perhaps
some other overhead. This solution had no obvious performance
advantage, while requiring extra options to work, so it was
discarded.
Install Parallel Tools updated for version 17 of Parallels for macOS. This
fixes clipboard sharing, so that copy and paste works between the host
macOS and the guest NixOS VM. Support for guests on M1 Apple Silicon-based
Macs (aarch64-linux) is also added.
Co-authored-by: Paul Smith <paulsmith@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Weijia Wang <9713184+wegank@users.noreply.github.com>
Potential use cases for disabling `useDefaultFilesystems` include:
- Testing with uncommon filesystem layouts
- Testing scenarios where swapping occurs
- Testing with LUKS-encrypted disks
Closes#177963
Prior to this patch:
$ nix-instantiate --eval -E '
> with import ./. {
> localSystem.config = "aarch64-unknown-linux-musl";
> };
> (nixos {}).config.nixpkgs.localSystem.config
> '
"aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu"
Because only the system triple was being passed through, the Musl part
of the system specification was lost. This patch fixes various
occurrences of NixOS evaluation when a Nixpkgs evaluation is already
available, to pass through the full elaborated system attribute set,
to avoid this loss of precision.
Previously, it was held back due to the ENA driver not building on the
current default (5.15). The previous commit bumps the ENA driver, which
allows 5.15 to work.
This has a number of benefits such as that applying service limits will
actually work since there isn't a layer of indirection (the Docker daemon)
between the systemd service and the container runtime.
We need to move NixOS containers somewhere else so these don't clash
with Podman, Skopeo & other container software in the libpod &
cri-o/cri-u/libcontainer ecosystems.
The state directory move is not strictly a requirement but is good for
consistency.
Otherwise, starting this daemon fails with the message
```
virtchd[3484224]: Initialization of mandatory cloud-hypervisor state driver skipped
virtchd[3484224]: Driver state initialization failed
```
Fixes#167850
using freeform is the new standard way of using modules and should replace
extraConfig.
In particular, this will allow us to place a condition on mails
* With the upgrade to waydroid to 1.2.0, dependencies that previously
were shipped in the service's path have been moved to the waydroid
package.
* Make sure /var/lib/misc exists when starting waydroid. As required
by dnsmasq
While doing kernel development with the nixos testing infrastructure, it
is useful to quickly compile the kernel on the side and boot it in the testing VM.
This patch allows overriding the kernel through the environment
variable. For example, the following:
$ NIXPKGS_QEMU_KERNEL_testvm=$LINUX_SRC/arch/x86/boot/bzImage $VM/bin/nixos-test-driver
runs testvm testing VM with the fresh kernel compiled in $LINUX_SRC.
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
As a novice to using this module, I found the existing description to be
quite misleading. It does not at all disable pulling from the registry,
it just loads some image archive that may or may not be related to the
container you're specifying. I had thought there was extra magic behind
this option, but it's just a `docker load`. You need foreknowledge of
the contents of the archive so that whatever it contained is actually
used to run the container.
I've reworded the description to hopefully make this behavior clearer.
LXC containers like those used by VPSAdminOS might want to install a bootloader
so passing `true` to `system.build.installBootLoader` without any priority specified,
causes a conflict for such systems with the recent `system.build` changes:
4014fb6a64
Fixes: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/155839
link to search.nixos.org instead of pulling package metadata out of pkgs. this
lets us cache docs of a few more modules and provides easier access to package
info from the HTML manual, but makes the manpage slightly less useful since
package description are no longer rendered.
most modules can be evaluated for their documentation in a very
restricted environment that doesn't include all of nixpkgs. this
evaluation can then be cached and reused for subsequent builds, merging
only documentation that has changed into the cached set. since nixos
ships with a large number of modules of which only a few are used in any
given config this can save evaluation a huge percentage of nixos
options available in any given config.
in tests of this caching, despite having to copy most of nixos/, saves
about 80% of the time needed to build the system manual, or about two
second on the machine used for testing. build time for a full system
config shrank from 9.4s to 7.4s, while turning documentation off
entirely shortened the build to 7.1s.
