vmtest.sh [--install] [--window] [--screen] [boot|loader|suite...], a detached screen
session with --screen, the summary in ~/vms/last-test.txt, the rows that need a person
listed as SKIP. New: the installer suite (R2.1), the toggles suite (R1.8) and H3 (BIOS
dry-run, per-block '# env:' for the VM start). vmsuite.sh and vmbootloadertest.sh are
executable again.
vmsuite.sh runs NN-name.host.sh blocks on the host (reboot, scripts/vmcec.sh) with
prelude-host.sh; every block that applies Steamify says so first (INFO) so the shared
console is not silent for minutes. 68 checks pass.
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.
Each block in share/vmtest/<suite>/ starts from a fresh ssh-ready snapshot, gets a
Plasma session environment over ssh (the theme item needs one) and prints PASS/FAIL
lines. ONLY=<prefix> runs one block. 55 checks pass on the plain CachyOS VM.
One VM per loader, Steam Machine (--fremont): Steamify's state as its menu sees it,
OS name untouched, loader identity, the DKMS modules for every kernel, Steamify's
loader-specific code (hdmi_remove_boot_param), a kernel update, and a reboot into
each of the two kernels. Headless by default with a log Konsole (--window shows
the VMs). Fails when an advertised loader has no test. Limine 41, systemd-boot 40,
GRUB 40 checks pass.
VM_BOOTLOADER=limine|systemd-boot|grub, VM_STEAMIFY (steamify-install runs after
the headless installer, like Calamares does), VM_CACHE (host pacman cache shared
as 9p, default ~/vms/pkg-cache). run.sh --headless / VM_HEADLESS=1: no window.
Fixes found on the way: the live script deadlocked on is-system-running (it is
the running kernel-command-line.service) and now waits for pacman-init; the post
script kept forcing the Plasma login over Steamify's gaming-mode SDDM, gave
systemd-boot no timeout/default (it waited in the menu for ever), and left ufw
blocking the host's ssh; the first-boot check wanted plasmashell in gaming mode.
QEMU/KVM scripts for a CachyOS KDE test VM (run.sh/run.ps1, get-iso,
guest SSH setup), host helper scripts to drive and inspect the
cachyos-gamescope-boot wizard in the guest, and a Claude Code skill
documenting the test workflow.
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