The WSL box has a desktop after all (WSLg windows on Windows), closing the
Arch window shuts it down, and vminstall.sh loop-mounts the ISO with losetup
as root when udisksctl is missing (R1c).
vmsuite.sh: the ssh-ready snapshot becomes one base image, every block gets a new qcow2 overlay
(no snapshot restore), each suite has its own VM directory and ssh port (2301-2305, boot loaders
2401-2403), the host's package cache is bound over pacman's, VM_MEM defaults to 4G for tests
(run.sh VM_MEM, default 8G). vmtest.sh runs up to MAX_PARALLEL=3 jobs at once, slowest first.
scripts/vmtest-remote.sh runs vmtest.sh on another machine (the PC) over ssh and prints the
summary. CLAUDE.md and the branch cleanup skill now live in the repo.
Not proven as a whole: three VMs at once and the base image work, but a complete parallel run to
the end has not finished yet (P1/P2 in TODO.md); the remote runner and WSL2 are untried (R1-R2).
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.
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