...for filesystem options. Before this change,
users would typically encounter conflicting option definitions
when trying to build an image for a generic nixos closure, i.e.
`nixos-rebuild build-image --image-variant proxmox --flake .#my-host`
This was an oversight in my commit
d37a3ea1ef, and results in the following
eval warning when proxmox images are used: `Obsolete option
`proxmox.qemuConf.diskSize' is used. It was renamed to
`virtualisation.diskSize'.`
After final improvements to the official formatter implementation,
this commit now performs the first treewide reformat of Nix files using it.
This is part of the implementation of RFC 166.
Only "inactive" files are reformatted, meaning only files that
aren't being touched by any PR with activity in the past 2 months.
This is to avoid conflicts for PRs that might soon be merged.
Later we can do a full treewide reformat to get the rest,
which should not cause as many conflicts.
A CI check has already been running for some time to ensure that new and
already-formatted files are formatted, so the files being reformatted here
should also stay formatted.
This commit was automatically created and can be verified using
nix-build a08b3a4d19.tar.gz \
--argstr baseRev b32a094368
result/bin/apply-formatting $NIXPKGS_PATH
these changes were generated with nixq 0.0.2, by running
nixq ">> lib.mdDoc[remove] Argument[keep]" --batchmode nixos/**.nix
nixq ">> mdDoc[remove] Argument[keep]" --batchmode nixos/**.nix
nixq ">> Inherit >> mdDoc[remove]" --batchmode nixos/**.nix
two mentions of the mdDoc function remain in nixos/, both of which
are inside of comments.
Since lib.mdDoc is already defined as just id, this commit is a no-op as
far as Nix (and the built manual) is concerned.
NOTES:
@jakeschurch did not realize that is was already updated on master, but not
backported to 23.05 channel
Signed-off-by: Jake Schurch <jakeschurch@gmail.com>
Context summary:
'vma create' can't otherwise write to tmpfs such as /dev/shm.
This is important when used from non-nixos machines which may
have /build as tmpfs.
VMA is Proxmox's virtual machine image format that wraps QEMU images,
augmenting these with proxmox-specific configuration file.
proxmox-image.nix uses the VMA tool to create vma image files.
The VMA tool exists as a patchset ontop of QEMU.
VMA writes its output with open() and O_DIRECT flag.
O_DIRECT does not work on Linux tmpfs [1]. Thus:
$ vma create ~/output.vma ... # works, assuming home isn't tmpfs.
$ vma create /dev/shm/output.vma ... # fails since /dev/shm is tmpfs
Failure results in assert(*errp == NULL).
O_DIRECT is a cache performance hint.
But it currently blocks our usage of nixos-generate -f proxmox from
Non-NixOS hosts and Docker.
The patch here simply removes O_DIRECT:
vma-writer.c later performs memalign due to O_DIRECT, but this is
safe to do with or without O_DIRECT.
Ideally, this should be fixed in upstream Proxmox: Perhaps by falling
back to open without O_DIRECT.
Another attempt to fix this SIGABRT is [2], which writes the vma file
directory to $out/ folder -- however that may still be tmpfs mounted
which it is in our case.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/45A29EC2.8020502@tmr.com/t/
[2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/224282
Allow building other than Legacy-BIOS-only Proxmox images.
Default is unchanged.
To build UEFI proxmox image use:
proxmox.qemuConf.bios = "ovmf";
(default is "seabios")
To build image bootable using both "seabios" and "ovmf" use:
partitionTableType = "hybrid";
BIOS can be switched in Proxmox between "seabios" and "ovmf" and VM still boots.
(GRUB2-only, systemd-boot does not boot under "seabios")
To build systemd-boot UEFI image:
proxmox.qemuConf.bios = "ovmf";
boot.loader.systemd-boot.enable = true;
