This introduces an option that allows us to turn off stateful generation
of Diffie-Hellman parameters, which in some way is still "stateful" as
the generated DH params file is non-deterministic.
However what we can avoid with this is to have an increased surface for
failures during system startup, because generation of the parameters is
done during build-time.
Aside from adding a NixOS VM test it also restructures the type of the
security.dhparams.params option, so that it's a submodule.
A new defaultBitSize option is also there to allow users to set a
system-wide default.
I added a release notes entry that described what has changed and also
included a few notes for module developers using this module, as the
first usage already popped up in NixOS/nixpkgs#39507.
Thanks to @Ekleog and @abbradar for reviewing.
As we found out in #40032, sit tests won't pass on
aarch64. The problem seems to be related to
`create_dir` not returning an error if the directory
already exists, happening specifically on aarch64+debug
(not aarch64+release)
This update injects a patch for tests that will also
be included in subsequent versions of SIT.
Assigning a list of 10 or more elements to an option having the type
`loaOf a` produces a configuration value that is not honoring the
order of the original list. This commit fixes this and a related issue
arising when 10 or more lists are merged into this type of option.
Always enable both tty and serial console, but set preferred console
depending on cfg.graphical.
Even in qemu graphical mode, you can switch to the serial console via
Ctrl+Alt+3.
With that being done, you also don't need to specify
`systemd.services."serial-getty@ttyS0".enable = true;` either as described in
https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Cheatsheet#Building_a_service_as_a_VM_.28for_testing.29,
as systemd automatically spawns a getty on consoles passwd via cmdline.
This also means, vms built by 'nixos-rebuild build-vm' can simply be run
properly in nographic mode by appending `-nographic` to `result/bin/run-*-vm`,
without the need to explicitly add platform-specific QEMU_KERNEL_PARAMS.