utils/vmbox/guest/dummy-creds.sh
Krzysztof kuhy Rudnicki a2d672f7fd vmbox: disposable Arch VM sandbox for destructive system tests
Much of testsAndMisc/linux_configuration cannot be tested on the host: 15
files use `chattr +i` (so a bad test is not simply revertable), the shutdown
installers write units that power the machine off, and boot_recovery installs
pacman hooks. The repo's own CI says as much -- its Ubuntu job runs only the
side-effect-free tests, noting the rest "drive pacman, /etc, systemd or adb".

vmbox runs them in a throwaway Arch guest and verifies the result from the
HOST, which is the part that is not obvious: a successful shutdown kills the
connection carrying the report, and ssh returns 255 for a clean poweroff, a
crash and a dropped link alike. So the verdict comes from two artefacts that
outlive the VM -- a QMP event log written by a recorder attached at launch
(attach later and qemu has already exited), and the serial console log.

Five outcomes are distinguished: clean poweroff (SHUTDOWN guest:true plus a
serial tail reaching "reboot: Power down"), dirty stop, guest-reset (rebooted
instead of powering off), GUEST_PANICKED, and hung. A POWERDOWN event proves
nothing -- it means the request was delivered, not that anything acted on it.

Reset is a qcow2 backing-file trick: the golden image is built once and sealed
(chmod 444 plus a sha256 sidecar verified on every launch, since booting the
base would silently invalidate every overlay), and each sandbox is a thin
overlay, so reset is rm + recreate. No root anywhere -- user-mode networking
with per-VM forwarded ssh ports, and a socket multicast segment for VM-to-VM.

The guest clock is pinned and re-applied on every launch, because the shutdown
installers gate on a 21:00-05:00 window; NTP is masked in the image or it
silently undoes the pin. Repos are cloned from a read-only share scoped to an
explicit directory, never $HOME, and credentials are sentinel values.

`vm build` ends by booting a throwaway sandbox off the sealed image and
refusing to ship if ssh does not answer. Several distinct faults produced an
identical "boots fine, connection reset" symptom; checks inside the build VM
only prove state at seal time, so the gate has to be an end-to-end boot.

Tests: 8 bats cases over the verdict table and name/meta/serial handling;
shellcheck and ruff clean; every file within the 250-line cap.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VdyMBGCrGVGDWtJ9xe48f3
2026-08-22 20:47:56 +02:00

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#!/bin/bash
# ============================================================================
# Provision SENTINEL credentials inside a sandbox.
#
# The guest must never hold real secrets: these repos reach live GitHub and
# Firebase, and a "test" run of an installer that syncs or pushes would hit
# production. Values are deliberately greppable, so if one ever shows up in a
# log or a request it is obvious where it came from.
# ============================================================================
set -euo pipefail
readonly SENTINEL="DUMMY-NOT-A-REAL-TOKEN-vmbox"
install -d -m 700 "$HOME/.config/crdt-sync"
cat > "$HOME/.config/crdt-sync/config.json" <<JSON
{
"_comment": "vmbox sandbox credentials. Not real. Never sync with these.",
"github_token": "$SENTINEL",
"firebase_api_key": "$SENTINEL",
"firebase_db_url": "https://vmbox-sandbox.invalid/"
}
JSON
chmod 600 "$HOME/.config/crdt-sync/config.json"
# A throwaway ssh key so anything expecting one finds it, without ever
# granting access to a real host.
if [[ ! -f "$HOME/.ssh/id_ed25519" ]]; then
install -d -m 700 "$HOME/.ssh"
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N '' -q -C 'vmbox-sandbox-throwaway' \
-f "$HOME/.ssh/id_ed25519"
fi
git config --global user.name "vmbox sandbox"
git config --global user.email "sandbox@vmbox.invalid"
# Any push attempt should fail loudly rather than reach a real remote.
git config --global url."https://vmbox-blocked.invalid/".insteadOf "https://github.com/"
echo "sandbox credentials provisioned (all sentinel values)"