Unverified Commit d406be44 authored by Maximilian Bosch's avatar Maximilian Bosch
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nixos/qemu-vm: add `enableSharedMemory` option 

This option configures a memfd backend for the VM's memory with the size
of `virtualisation.memorySize` and uses that as default memory backend.

This is required for e.g. vhost-device-vsock.

The motivation for making this an option is that I decided to enable
this by default for all NixOS tests to avoid changing essential QEMU
options based on whether or not debugging is enabled. However, there
should be an easy way to turn it off which is what this option provides.
parent 28a45037

nixos/modules/virtualisation/qemu-vm.nix

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@@ -716,6 +716,8 @@ in 
    };



    virtualisation.qemu = {

      enableSharedMemory = mkEnableOption "shared memory";



      package = mkOption {

        type = types.package;

        default =
@@ -1338,6 +1340,10 @@ in 
        "-device usb-kbd"

        "-device usb-tablet"

      ])

      (mkIf cfg.qemu.enableSharedMemory [

        "-object memory-backend-memfd,id=mem0,size=${toString config.virtualisation.memorySize}M,share=on"

        "-machine memory-backend=mem0"

      ])

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