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.
theupriser