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Dev docs: The system tests do not need elevated privileges after all.
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@@ -22,12 +22,9 @@ Unit tests are also run on CI.
The system tests are run using this command::
$
sudo --preserve-env
nix-build nixos/system-tests.nix
$ nix-build nixos/system-tests.nix
The system tests boot QEMU VMs which prevents them from running on CI at this time.
Starting VMs require elevated privileges,
which is the reason for the suggested ``sudo`` command,
together with the ``--preserve-env`` option to avoid escaping the ``nix-shell`` set up at the top.
The build requires > 10 GB of disk space,
and the VMs might be timing out on slow or busy machines.
If you run into timeouts,
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@@ -35,7 +32,7 @@ try `raising the number of retries <https://github.com/PrivateStorageio/PrivateS
It is also possible go through the testing script interactively - useful for debugging::
$
sudo --preserve-env
nix-build -A private-storage.driver nixos/system-tests.nix
$ nix-build -A private-storage.driver nixos/system-tests.nix
This will give you a result symlink in the current directory.
Inside that is bin/nixos-test-driver which gives you a kind of REPL for interacting with the VMs.
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