This reverts commit aab534b894c60e69199aba4cc57b8b3f8fd1a8c2 & uses the
driverInteractive attribute for the test driver instead.
This has the same effect but removes the extra module in the
nixos-build-vms code.
This fixes an eval error that occurred on hydra with the small channel
and the `nixos.tests.boot.biosCdrom.x86_64-linux` attribute:
> $ nix-instantiate nixos/release-small.nix -A nixos.tests.boot.biosCdrom.x86_64-linux
> warning: unknown setting 'experimental-features'
> error: The option `virtualisation.qemu' does not exist. Definition values:
> - In `/home/andi/dev/nixos/nixpkgs/nixos/modules/testing/test-instrumentation.nix':
> {
> consoles = [ ];
> package = {
> _type = "override";
> content = <derivation /nix/store/q72h2cdcb9zjgiay5gdgzwddjkbjr7xq-qemu-host-cpu-only-for-vm-tests-5.1.0.drv>;
> ...
> (use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
In bc2188b we changed test test-instrumentation to also set the QEMU
package that is being used. That change unfortunately caused us to
always assing values to the virtualisation.qemu.package option even when
the option is not defined. The original code was explicitly testing for
the consoles case but the then newly extended version did not adjust the
check as the intention was probably not clear.
With this commit we are always ensuring the entire virtualisation.qemu
section exists and can thus drop the individual tests for each of the
sections since the QEMU module always defines both the package and the
consoles option when it's root is defined..
In https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/100119 pantheon's greeter
has g-s-d running which allows brightness controls via pkexec.
This is changed in newer versions of g-s-d (pantheon uses a fork currently),
but whenever brightness is changed with a shell of `shadow` we get
```
Oct 10 23:51:44 kirXps pkexec[18722]: lightdm: Executing command [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/var/lib/lightdm] [COMMAND=/run/current-system/sw/bin/elementary-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-eDP-1/intel_backlight 65587]
```
I'm not sure this should be strictly needed, so we should try to
revert later on when pantheon's g-s-d is updated.
This adds basically an indirection to systemPackages
to automatically install an interface for flatpak for their respective
environments. e.g if I enable pantheon and flatpak you'll get appcenter,
and on gnome you'll see gnome-software.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/99648#issuecomment-706691174
When we redid the default apps we didn't add gnome-boxes for
rdp/vnc. (plus it doesn't really work well in nixos). With gnome-connections
we can now have this functionality, as file sharing is a default function
in g-c-c Sharing.
When I test a change e.g. in the module system manually, I usually use
`nixos-build-vms(8)` which also gives me a QEMU window where I can play
around in the freshly built VM.
It seems as this has changed recently when the default package for
non-interactive VM tests using the same framework was switched to
`pkgs.qemu_test` to reduce the closure size. While this is a reasonable
decision for our CI tests, I think that you really want a QEMU window of
the VM by default when using `nixos-build-vms(8)`.
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