feat: the menu suite (R1.1-R1.6, R1.10) and one shared log Konsole for every test run

Scripted menu input and Steamify's own status functions, journals free of duplicates,
--backend status as JSON, an older item shown as (update). The test scripts append to
$TEST_LOG and share one Konsole (common.sh view_start) instead of opening one each;
vmsuite.sh streams its output (sed -u). 36 checks pass.

scripts/common.sh

@@ -19,3 +19,13 @@ if [[ -z "${VM_SSH_KEY:-}" && -f "$VM_DIR/ssh-key" ]]; then VM_SSH_KEY="$(cat "$
 [[ -n "${VM_SSH_KEY:-}" ]] && VM_SSH_OPTS+=(-i "$VM_SSH_KEY" -o IdentitiesOnly=yes)
 vm_ssh() { ssh -p "$VM_PORT" "${VM_SSH_OPTS[@]}" "$VM_USER@$VM_HOST" "$@"; }
 vm_scp() { scp -q -P "$VM_PORT" "${VM_SSH_OPTS[@]}" "$@"; }
+
+# One Konsole for every test run: it follows $TEST_LOG, which the test scripts append to.
+# Started only when there is a desktop, the run is headless and no such window exists.
+TEST_LOG="${TEST_LOG:-$HOME/vms/test.log}"
+view_start() {
+    [[ -n "${VM_HEADLESS:-}" && -z "${CI:-}" && -n "${WAYLAND_DISPLAY:-}${DISPLAY:-}" ]] && command -v konsole >/dev/null || return 0
+    systemctl --user is-active --quiet vmtest-view 2>/dev/null && return 0
+    mkdir -p "$(dirname "$TEST_LOG")"; touch "$TEST_LOG"
+    systemd-run --user -q --collect --unit=vmtest-view konsole --hold -e tail -n 60 -F "$TEST_LOG" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+}

scripts/vmbootloadertest.sh

@@ -42,14 +42,12 @@ stop_vm() {
 }
 start_vm() { stop_vm; cp "$repo/run.sh" "$VM_DIR/run.sh"; (cd "$VM_DIR" && REPO="${REPO:-$repo/../steamify-cachyos}" setsid nohup ./run.sh --fremont > vm.log 2>&1 &); }
 reboot_vm() { gssh 'sudo systemctl reboot' >/dev/null 2>&1; sleep 25; waitssh; }
-# Headless on a desktop: a Konsole following the log (vmtest.sh opens one for all loaders; CI has no desktop).
-if [[ -n "${VM_HEADLESS:-}" && -z "${CI:-}${VMTEST_NO_VIEW:-}" && -n "${WAYLAND_DISPLAY:-}${DISPLAY:-}" ]] && command -v konsole >/dev/null; then
-    systemd-run --user -q --collect --unit="vmtest-view-$loader-$$" konsole --hold -e tail -n +1 -F "$log" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
-fi
+view_start   # one shared Konsole (common.sh)
 # The guest checks print PASS/FAIL lines; the summary at the end counts them in the log.
 check() { cat; }
 
 {
+printf '\n===== vmbootloadertest.sh %s (%s) =====\n' "$loader" "$(date +%T)"
 if $install; then
     step "install $loader VM in $VM_DIR"
     stop_vm
@@ -112,7 +110,7 @@ b="$(gssh uname -r)"
 
 step "DONE"
 stop_vm
-} 2>&1 | tee "$log" | sed 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g'
+} 2>&1 | tee "$log" | tee -a "$TEST_LOG" | sed 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g'
 fails="$(grep -c '^FAIL' "$log")"
 echo; echo "== $loader: $(grep -c '^PASS' "$log") passed, $fails failed (log: $log)"
 grep '^FAIL' "$log"

scripts/vmsuite.sh

@@ -17,18 +17,16 @@ dir="$repo/share/vmtest/$suite"
 [[ -d "$dir" ]] || { echo "No suite $suite (folders in share/vmtest/)" >&2; exit 2; }
 . "$here/common.sh"
 log="$VM_DIR.$suite.log"
-# Headless on a desktop: a Konsole following the log (CI has no desktop; vmtest.sh opens its own).
-if [[ -n "${VM_HEADLESS:-}" && -z "${CI:-}${VMTEST_NO_VIEW:-}" && -n "${WAYLAND_DISPLAY:-}${DISPLAY:-}" ]] && command -v konsole >/dev/null; then
-    systemd-run --user -q --collect --unit="vmsuite-view-$suite-$$" konsole --hold -e tail -n +1 -F "$log" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
-fi
+view_start   # one shared Konsole (common.sh), headless on a desktop
 {
+printf '\n===== vmsuite.sh %s (%s) =====\n' "$suite" "$(date +%T)"
 for block in "$dir"/*.sh; do
     [[ -z "${ONLY:-}" || "$(basename "$block")" == "$ONLY"* ]] || continue   # ONLY=50: just that block
     printf '\n##### %s %s\n' "$(date +%T)" "$(basename "$block" .sh)"
     "$here/vmreset.sh" --fremont > /tmp/vmsuite-reset.out 2>&1 || { echo "FAIL vmreset.sh failed: $(tail -n 1 /tmp/vmsuite-reset.out)"; continue; }
-    cat "$repo/share/vmtest/prelude.sh" "$block" | vm_ssh -o ConnectTimeout=6 -o LogLevel=ERROR bash -s 2>&1 | sed 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g'
+    cat "$repo/share/vmtest/prelude.sh" "$block" | vm_ssh -o ConnectTimeout=6 -o LogLevel=ERROR bash -s 2>&1 | sed -u 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g'
 done
-} 2>&1 | tee "$log"
+} 2>&1 | tee "$log" | tee -a "$TEST_LOG"
 fails="$(grep -c '^FAIL' "$log")"
 echo; echo "== $suite: $(grep -c '^PASS' "$log") passed, $fails failed, $(grep -c '^SKIP' "$log") skipped (log: $log)"
 grep '^FAIL' "$log"

scripts/vmtest.sh

@@ -27,12 +27,7 @@ for l in $advertised; do
     [[ " $tested " == *" $l "* ]] || { echo "FAIL the ISO advertises $l, but there is no test for it (scripts/vmbootloadertest.sh)"; missing=$((missing + 1)); }
 done
 total=$missing
-# No human is needed: headless. One Konsole for all the logs (the loader scripts open none).
-export VMTEST_NO_VIEW=1
-if [[ -z "$window" && -z "${CI:-}" && -n "${WAYLAND_DISPLAY:-}${DISPLAY:-}" ]] && command -v konsole >/dev/null; then
-    logs=(); for l in "${loaders[@]}"; do logs+=("$HOME/vms/bl-$l.test.log"); done
-    systemd-run --user -q --collect --unit="vmtest-view-$$" konsole --hold -e tail -n +1 -F "${logs[@]}" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
-fi
+# No human is needed: headless; the scripts share one Konsole (common.sh, $TEST_LOG).
 for l in "${loaders[@]}"; do
     "$here/vmbootloadertest.sh" "$l" $install $window > "/tmp/vmtest-$l.out" 2>&1; rc=$?
     sed -n '/^== /,$p' "/tmp/vmtest-$l.out"