nixpkgs/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-build-vms/build-vms.nix
Maximilian Bosch ec6bac99cc
nixos/build-vms: propagate file location
When trying to build a VM using `nixos-build-vms` with a configuration
that doesn't evaluate, an error "at `<unknown-file>`" is usually shown.

This happens since the `build-vms.nix` creates a VM-network of
NixOS-configurations that are attr-sets or functions and don't contain
any file information. This patch manually adds the `_file`-attribute to
tell the module-system which file contained broken configuration:

```
$ cat vm.nix
{ vm.invalid-option = 1; }

$ nixos-build-vms vm.nix
error: The option `invalid-option' defined in `/home/ma27/Projects/nixpkgs/vm.nix@node-vm' does not exist.
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
```
2020-04-13 17:50:13 +02:00

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{ system ? builtins.currentSystem
, config ? {}
, networkExpr
}:
let
nodes = builtins.mapAttrs (vm: module: {
_file = "${networkExpr}@node-${vm}";
imports = [ module ];
}) (import networkExpr);
in
with import ../../../../lib/testing-python.nix {
inherit system;
pkgs = import ../../../../.. { inherit system config; };
};
(makeTest { inherit nodes; testScript = ""; }).driver