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Commit d86b10cd authored by Florian Sesser's avatar Florian Sesser
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Readme: Mention why we suggest using sudo

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...@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ The system tests are run using this command:: ...@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ The system tests are run using this command::
$ sudo --preserve-env nix-build nixos/system-tests.nix $ sudo --preserve-env nix-build nixos/system-tests.nix
The system tests boot QEMU VMs which prevents them from running on CI at this time. 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. 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, try `raising the number of retries <https://github.com/PrivateStorageio/PrivateStorageio/blob/e8233d2/nixos/modules/tests/run-introducer.py#L55-L62>`_. If you run into timeouts, try `raising the number of retries <https://github.com/PrivateStorageio/PrivateStorageio/blob/e8233d2/nixos/modules/tests/run-introducer.py#L55-L62>`_.
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