Rather than relying on carefully avoiding touching the 9P-mounted
/nix/store, we instead install a small NixOS system, similar to
the installer tests, and boot from that.
This avoids the various pitfalls associated with trying to unsuspend
properly and trades off a bunch of boilerplate for what will hopefully
be a more reliable test.
Additionally, this test now actually tests booting the system using a
bootloader, rather than the previous method of just booting the kernel
directly.
I'm not sure why 024b501907 used -q 0
because even netcat-openbsd has the -N flag which IMO is the better way
to shutdown the socket on EOF.
Our default netcat implementation has changed once again[1] in
3c3b82234a and we're now using LibreSSL's
implementation, which doesn't have a -q flag.
See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/39634 for the pull request
introducing the switch.
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/19982
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
Cc: @matthewbauer, @dtzWill, @Mic92
There was one confusing recent failure of this:
http://cache.nixos.org/log/myla8bc17j8spmifdxmrz9jswxwsf5w6-vm-test-run-hibernate.drv
I don't have any real ideas on what could cause the problem but there is
at least one theoretical one: the system starts hibernating before the
listener process manages to open the TCP port for listening, and it can't
open it after resuming because not enough pages from the netcat binary
have been paged in (and as the 9p filesystem holding it is now toast,
they can't be loaded anymore).
The motivation for this change is the following: As gnu-netcat,
e. g. does not support ipv6, it is not suitable as default netcat.
This commit also fixes all obvious build issues caused by this change.
