From 415c7d45289526ca4568e2e79eb76e5d8da62d3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Sesser <florian@leastauthority.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 18:19:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Dev docs: The system tests do not need elevated privileges after all. --- docs/source/dev/README.rst | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/source/dev/README.rst b/docs/source/dev/README.rst index 4cdf76fc..d2039746 100644 --- a/docs/source/dev/README.rst +++ b/docs/source/dev/README.rst @@ -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, @@ -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. -- GitLab