builders: add support for systemd-nspawn containers#986
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(I don't know why these docs don't show up on https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/unstable/index.html#sec-running-nixos-tests-requirements yet.)
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@mweinelt, to get things unbroken ASAP, I would propose that we:
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This is part of NixOS#987. It gets standalone nspawn containers working, but not tests that include both nspawn containers and qemu vms. We discussed this at our last team meeting, and folks didn't seem to object to enabling these tests. At the time, I thought it was a purely hypothetical conversation, but it turns out that some of our jobsets in Hydra actually do [include these new tests](NixOS/nixpkgs#478109 (comment)).
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Now that NixOS/infra#986 has landed, we can enable container based tests that don't require the ability for containers and vms to communicate.
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Now that NixOS/infra#986 has landed, we can enable container based tests that don't require the ability for containers and vms to communicate.
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Now that NixOS/infra#986 has landed, we can enable container based tests that don't require the ability for containers and vms to communicate.
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This is part of #987. It gets
standalone nspawn containers working, but not tests that include both
nspawn containers and qemu vms.
We discussed this at our last team meeting, and folks didn't seem to
object to enabling these tests.
At the time, I thought it was a purely hypothetical conversation, but it
turns out that some of our jobsets in Hydra actually do include these
new tests.