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From: Kristian Ollikainen <14197772+DatCaptainHorse@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:45:13 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] feat: resident guest init (#333)
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Get this thing going..
Confidence Score: 5/5
The PR appears safe to merge; all previous findings are resolved and the
latest readiness change introduces no established actionable regression.
Summary
- Establishes required guest filesystems, runtime directories, device
permissions, and service processes.
- Reports initialization and service deaths over the lifecycle channel.
- Supports launch, restart, and shutdown commands for a resident guest.
- Separates service and workload identities and configures per-launch
runtime environments.
- Removes the currently inactive nescope screenshot option and makes
capture-chain verification fail explicitly when compositor readback is
unavailable.
- Reworks the guest image around `nesinit` as PID 1 without a
distribution service manager.
Diagram
```mermaid
sequenceDiagram
participant Host
participant Init as nesinit
participant FS as Guest filesystems
participant Services as Service stack
participant Workload
Init->>Host: Ready(protocol version)
Host->>Init: Boot(mount descriptors)
Init->>FS: Establish and mount shares
Init->>Services: Spawn services in order
Services-->>Init: Required sockets ready
Init->>Host: Initialized(service names)
Host->>Init: Launch(id, exec, on_exit)
Init->>Workload: Spawn with isolated UID/runtime
Init->>Host: Started(id)
Workload-->>Init: Exit status
Init->>Host: WorkloadExited(id, status)
Host->>Init: Launch / Restart / Shutdown
```
Reviews (4) · Last reviewed commit: ["fix(nesinit): readiness is a
socket
that..."](https://github.com/nestrilabs/nestri/commit/731d34df9df30463f67963363424cb9487e89196)
---------
Co-authored-by: DatCaptainHorse
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5
---
Cargo.lock | 113 +-
apps/nescapture/scripts/verify-chain.sh | 15 +
apps/nescope/Cargo.toml | 6 +-
apps/nescope/src/main.rs | 25 +-
apps/nesinit/README.md | 75 +-
apps/nesinit/src/filesystems.rs | 158 ++-
apps/nesinit/src/lib.rs | 12 +-
apps/nesinit/src/main.rs | 54 +-
apps/nesinit/src/services.rs | 959 ++++++++++++++
apps/nesinit/src/session.rs | 1319 ++++++++++++++------
apps/nesinit/src/system.rs | 539 ++++++++
apps/nesinit/src/workload.rs | 209 +++-
apps/nesinit/tests/services_stop.rs | 82 ++
build/Containerfile | 573 +++++++++
build/Containerfile.containerignore | 40 +
build/Containerfile.proton | 102 ++
build/Containerfile.proton.containerignore | 15 +
build/Dockerfile | 309 -----
build/Dockerfile.dockerignore | 29 -
build/Makefile | 45 +-
build/README.md | 230 +++-
build/etc/conf.d/agetty.hvc0.debug | 3 -
build/etc/conf.d/agetty.hvc0.prod | 3 -
build/etc/conf.d/nescope | 16 -
build/etc/conf.d/neshub | 18 -
build/etc/conf.d/nestri-user-env | 34 -
build/etc/conf.d/neswire | 32 -
build/etc/fstab | 35 -
build/etc/init.d/dbus-session | 33 -
build/etc/init.d/dbus-system | 19 -
build/etc/init.d/guest-net | 92 --
build/etc/init.d/nescope | 33 -
build/etc/init.d/neshub | 39 -
build/etc/init.d/neswire | 93 --
build/etc/init.d/pipewire | 45 -
build/etc/init.d/wireplumber | 20 -
build/etc/init.d/xdg-runtime | 44 -
build/etc/profile.d/nestri-env.sh | 22 +-
build/etc/rc.conf | 27 -
build/scripts/mkimage.sh | 4 +-
build/scripts/proton-build.sh | 96 ++
build/scripts/proton-fetch.sh | 57 +
crates/nesprotocol/src/lifecycle.rs | 327 ++++-
43 files changed, 4448 insertions(+), 1553 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 apps/nesinit/src/services.rs
create mode 100644 apps/nesinit/src/system.rs
create mode 100644 apps/nesinit/tests/services_stop.rs
create mode 100644 build/Containerfile
create mode 100644 build/Containerfile.containerignore
create mode 100644 build/Containerfile.proton
create mode 100644 build/Containerfile.proton.containerignore
delete mode 100644 build/Dockerfile
delete mode 100644 build/Dockerfile.dockerignore
delete mode 100644 build/etc/conf.d/agetty.hvc0.debug
delete mode 100644 build/etc/conf.d/agetty.hvc0.prod
delete mode 100644 build/etc/conf.d/nescope
delete mode 100644 build/etc/conf.d/neshub
delete mode 100644 build/etc/conf.d/nestri-user-env
delete mode 100644 build/etc/conf.d/neswire
delete mode 100644 build/etc/fstab
delete mode 100644 build/etc/init.d/dbus-session
delete mode 100644 build/etc/init.d/dbus-system
delete mode 100644 build/etc/init.d/guest-net
delete mode 100644 build/etc/init.d/nescope
delete mode 100644 build/etc/init.d/neshub
delete mode 100644 build/etc/init.d/neswire
delete mode 100644 build/etc/init.d/pipewire
delete mode 100644 build/etc/init.d/wireplumber
delete mode 100644 build/etc/init.d/xdg-runtime
delete mode 100644 build/etc/rc.conf
create mode 100755 build/scripts/proton-build.sh
create mode 100755 build/scripts/proton-fetch.sh
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 67f8d545..e9207348 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -628,6 +628,12 @@ version = "0.8.7"
source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
checksum = "773648b94d0e5d620f64f280777445740e61fe701025087ec8b57f45c791888b"
+[[package]]
+name = "core_detect"
+version = "1.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "7f8f80099a98041a3d1622845c271458a2d73e688351bf3cb999266764b81d48"
+
[[package]]
name = "cpufeatures"
version = "0.2.17"
@@ -1022,11 +1028,17 @@ checksum = "edd0f118536f44f5ccd48bcb8b111bdc3de888b58c74639dfb034a357d0f206d"
[[package]]
name = "encoding_rs"
-version = "0.8.35"
+version = "0.8.40"
source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "75030f3c4f45dafd7586dd6780965a8c7e8e285a5ecb86713e63a79c5b2766f3"
+checksum = "2a7a45518d2863d18aa47f4a0cf9faec2aa4304cc09df5e41299f276b3ad135e"
dependencies = [
"cfg-if",
+ "core_detect",
+ "multiversion",
+ "multiversion_no_op",
+ "rustversion",
+ "scopeguard",
+ "simdutf8",
]
[[package]]
@@ -1243,28 +1255,6 @@ dependencies = [
"slab",
]
-[[package]]
-name = "gbm"
-version = "0.18.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ce852e998d3ca5e4a97014fb31c940dc5ef344ec7d364984525fd11e8a547e6a"
-dependencies = [
- "bitflags 2.13.1",
- "drm",
- "drm-fourcc",
- "gbm-sys",
- "libc",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "gbm-sys"
-version = "0.4.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "c13a5f2acc785d8fb6bf6b7ab6bfb0ef5dad4f4d97e8e70bb8e470722312f76f"
-dependencies = [
- "libc",
-]
-
[[package]]
name = "generator"
version = "0.8.9"
@@ -1349,17 +1339,6 @@ dependencies = [
"polyval",
]
-[[package]]
-name = "gl_generator"
-version = "0.14.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1a95dfc23a2b4a9a2f5ab41d194f8bfda3cabec42af4e39f08c339eb2a0c124d"
-dependencies = [
- "khronos_api",
- "log",
- "xml-rs",
-]
-
[[package]]
name = "glob"
version = "0.3.4"
@@ -2156,12 +2135,6 @@ dependencies = [
"wasm-bindgen",
]
-[[package]]
-name = "khronos_api"
-version = "3.1.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e2db585e1d738fc771bf08a151420d3ed193d9d895a36df7f6f8a9456b911ddc"
-
[[package]]
name = "lazy_static"
version = "1.5.0"
@@ -2371,6 +2344,34 @@ dependencies = [
"uuid",
]
+[[package]]
+name = "multiversion"
+version = "0.8.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "7edb7f0ff51249dfda9ab96b5823695e15a052dc15074c9dbf3d118afaf2c201"
+dependencies = [
+ "multiversion-macros",
+ "target-features",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "multiversion-macros"
+version = "0.8.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b093064383341eb3271f42e381cb8f10a01459478446953953c75d24bd339fc0"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.119",
+ "target-features",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "multiversion_no_op"
+version = "1.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "743fb55ba31b18fb1ecef6bdc9aa2743314978ac084044301a7eee33fb99a20d"
+
[[package]]
name = "n0-error"
version = "1.0.1"
@@ -3102,24 +3103,6 @@ dependencies = [
"tracing",
]
-[[package]]
-name = "pixman"
-version = "0.2.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "cea217d496c19ac0a8e502b37078e1f683d16344adee9eb247a5d57c165e1edf"
-dependencies = [
- "drm-fourcc",
- "paste",
- "pixman-sys",
- "thiserror 1.0.69",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "pixman-sys"
-version = "0.1.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a1a0483e89e81d7915defe83c51f23f6800594d64f6f4a21253ce87fd8444ada"
-
[[package]]
name = "pkcs8"
version = "0.11.0"
@@ -3905,7 +3888,6 @@ dependencies = [
"atomic_float",
"bitflags 2.13.1",
"calloop",
- "cc",
"cgmath",
"cursor-icon",
"downcast-rs",
@@ -3914,14 +3896,9 @@ dependencies = [
"drm-fourcc",
"encoding_rs",
"errno",
- "gbm",
- "gl_generator",
"indexmap",
"input",
"libc",
- "libloading",
- "pixman",
- "pkg-config",
"profiling",
"rand 0.9.5",
"rustix 1.1.4",
@@ -4103,6 +4080,12 @@ version = "0.2.0"
source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
checksum = "7b2093cf4c8eb1e67749a6762251bc9cd836b6fc171623bd0a9d324d37af2417"
+[[package]]
+name = "target-features"
+version = "0.1.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c1bbb9f3c5c463a01705937a24fdabc5047929ac764b2d5b9cf681c1f5041ed5"
+
[[package]]
name = "target-lexicon"
version = "0.13.5"
diff --git a/apps/nescapture/scripts/verify-chain.sh b/apps/nescapture/scripts/verify-chain.sh
index 9b184484..b68245fb 100755
--- a/apps/nescapture/scripts/verify-chain.sh
+++ b/apps/nescapture/scripts/verify-chain.sh
@@ -36,6 +36,21 @@ done
echo "building…"
cargo build --release -p nescope -p nescapture --manifest-path "$ROOT/Cargo.toml" >/dev/null
+# The whole method here is two independent instruments on the same frames, and
+# the second one is the compositor's own readback. While nescope's screenshot
+# path is commented out there is no second instrument, so this script cannot
+# make the comparison it exists for. Said here rather than fifty lines later as
+# "compositor readback produced no frames", which reads like a capture bug.
+#
+# Asked of the binary rather than hard-coded, so this comes back by itself on
+# the commit that brings the path back.
+if ! "$ROOT/target/release/nescope" --help 2>&1 | grep -q -- --screenshot-ipc; then
+ echo "this nescope has no --screenshot-ipc, so there is no readback to compare" >&2
+ echo "the encoded frames against; the GPU readback path in nescope is" >&2
+ echo "commented out. See apps/nescope/src/main.rs." >&2
+ exit 1
+fi
+
LAYER="$ROOT/target/release/libnescapture_layer.so"
MANIFEST_DIR="$WORK/implicit_layer.d"
mkdir -p "$MANIFEST_DIR"
diff --git a/apps/nescope/Cargo.toml b/apps/nescope/Cargo.toml
index dfa79a7b..9afca051 100644
--- a/apps/nescope/Cargo.toml
+++ b/apps/nescope/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,13 +18,11 @@ smithay = { version = "0.7", default-features = false, features = [
"backend_drm",
"desktop",
"backend_libinput",
- "renderer_pixman", # needed for on_commit_buffer_handler
+ #"renderer_pixman", # needed for on_commit_buffer_handler
# Reading a dmabuf back to the CPU. nescope still does not composite or
# present anything -- this is import-and-copy only, so a client that
# renders on the GPU can be screenshotted like any other.
- "renderer_gl",
- "backend_egl",
- "backend_gbm",
+ #"backend_gbm",
] }
# Wayland client – connects to the host compositor to forward buffers.
diff --git a/apps/nescope/src/main.rs b/apps/nescope/src/main.rs
index 7bd8316f..444136a3 100644
--- a/apps/nescope/src/main.rs
+++ b/apps/nescope/src/main.rs
@@ -60,15 +60,15 @@ use smithay::reexports::wayland_server::Display;
use smithay::wayland::socket::ListeningSocketSource;
mod focus;
-mod gpu_readback;
+//mod gpu_readback;
mod handlers;
mod hdr;
mod input;
mod input_ipc;
mod libinput_backend;
mod protocols;
-mod screenshot_ipc;
-mod screenshot_wire;
+//mod screenshot_ipc;
+//mod screenshot_wire;
mod state;
mod xwm;
@@ -125,14 +125,11 @@ struct Args {
)]
input_ipc: String,
- /// Path to the hub's screenshot IPC socket (nescope connects as client).
- ///
- /// Optional, and absent means the feature is simply off: it exists for
- /// clients that are not games — a Steam login screen has no Vulkan frames
- /// for `nescapture` to take, so its pixels can only come from here.
- #[arg(long, env = "NESCOPE_SCREENSHOT_IPC")]
- screenshot_ipc: Option,
-
+ // There is no `--screenshot-ipc`. The path it named is commented out below,
+ // and an option that is accepted and does nothing is worse than one that is
+ // refused: a caller passing it gets no error, no capture, and nothing to
+ // read that says which. It comes back with the code, or not at all.
+ //
/// GPU render device (e.g. /dev/dri/renderD128). Sets VK_DRIVER_FILES
/// for the game so it uses the same GPU.
#[arg(long, env = "NESCOPE_RENDER_DEVICE")]
@@ -317,13 +314,13 @@ fn main() {
// The GPU to import dmabufs on for screenshots. Same device the game is
// pointed at, because a buffer the game produced can only be imported on
// the device that made it.
- gpu_readback::set_render_device(args.render_device.clone());
+ //gpu_readback::set_render_device(args.render_device.clone());
// ── Screenshot IPC source ────────────────────────────────────────────
// Same dial-out shape as the input socket below, so the hub is the
// listener and there is no race against a socket that does not exist yet.
// Absent means the feature is off, which is the normal case for a game.
- if let Some(path) = args.screenshot_ipc.clone() {
+ /*if let Some(path) = args.screenshot_ipc.clone() {
match screenshot_ipc::ScreenshotIpcSource::connect(&path) {
Ok(source) => match source.try_clone_writer() {
Ok(mut writer) => {
@@ -357,7 +354,7 @@ fn main() {
},
Err(e) => tracing::warn!("Failed to connect to screenshot IPC socket {path}: {e}"),
}
- }
+ }*/
// ── Input IPC source ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
// Connect to the neshub input socket and feed events into the
diff --git a/apps/nesinit/README.md b/apps/nesinit/README.md
index 0aec304e..ecae58fe 100644
--- a/apps/nesinit/README.md
+++ b/apps/nesinit/README.md
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
PID 1 inside a box.
-A microVM has no init unless something is it. Three of the jobs are nobody
-else's, and this is all of them:
+A microVM has no init unless something is it, and in a box nothing else is:
+there is no service manager in the image and no init scripts. Four jobs, and
+this is all of them:
- **Reaping.** A process whose parent dies is reparented to PID 1. Without a
reaper, every orphan the workload leaves behind holds a pid and a slot in the
@@ -11,25 +12,46 @@ else's, and this is all of them:
- **Ordered shutdown.** The workload stops first and alone, then everything
else, then the disks are flushed and the machine is powered off. An init that
returns leaves a guest running with nothing in it.
+- **The box's own services.** The bus, audio, and the transport that carries a
+ session out, started in order from a table compiled into this binary. There
+ is no unit format and no directory of files to read: the services in a box
+ are fixed, and running on any distribution comes from depending on none of
+ their init scripts rather than from being configurable.
- **The guest end of the control channel.** One vsock connection out, carrying
what to run in and what happened back.
-It does not know what it is running. It is handed a command line, a set of
-shares and what an exit means; there is no code path here that branches on
-which workload it started, and there is not meant to be.
+It does not know what it is running. It is handed a set of shares, and then
+commands naming what to run and what an exit means; there is no code path here
+that branches on which workload it started, and there is not meant to be.
+
+**A box outlives what runs in it.** Init mounts, brings the services up, says
+it is ready, and then takes commands for as long as the box lives — so this
+image on its own runs nothing at all, and a box may be launched into more than
+once.
### The channel
The guest dials out on a fixed vsock port and speaks first:
```
-guest → { "type": "ready", "protocol_version": 2 }
-guest ← { "type": "boot", "exec": {...}, "mounts": [...], "geometry": {...}, "on_exit": {...} }
+guest → { "type": "ready", "protocol_version": 3 }
+guest ← { "type": "boot", "mounts": [...] }
guest → { "type": "mounted" }
-guest → { "type": "started" }
-guest → { "type": "workload_exited", "exit_code": 0 }
+guest → { "type": "initialized", "services": ["dbus-system", ...] }
+guest ← { "type": "launch", "id": "…", "exec": {...}, "on_exit": {...} }
+guest → { "type": "started", "id": "…" }
+guest → { "type": "workload_exited", "id": "…", "exit_code": 0 }
```
+`ready` is the handshake and `initialized` is the box working. They are two
+facts and must not be treated as one: a caller that waits on the first has a
+wait that succeeds before anything in the guest has started.
+
+Every launch carries an id and every message about a launch carries it back.
+Without one, a second launch's exit is indistinguishable from the first's —
+which reads at the far end as a finished session still running, or a running
+one reported as stopped.
+
Newline-delimited JSON. Dialling out rather than being connected to is worth
keeping for two reasons: the listener is up before the VM starts, so nothing
races a booting kernel and nothing has to retry, and the connection
@@ -109,19 +131,40 @@ later for no visible reason.
### It reports; it does not supervise
-When the workload ends, the exit goes up the channel and the session is over.
-`on_exit` says what that exit *means* — whether it ends the session — and
-nothing here restarts anything. Starting something again is a decision for the
-end that can see whether restarting is repair or a loop.
+When a launch ends, the exit goes up the channel. `on_exit` says what that exit
+*means* — whether it ends the session or leaves the box up to be launched into
+again — and nothing here restarts anything of its own accord. Starting
+something again is a decision for the end that can see whether restarting is
+repair or a loop.
+
+`restart` exists as one message and is defined as exactly that: a kill followed
+by a launch of the same command, keeping the id, with no retry and no backoff.
+It is one message rather than two only because a caller sending two has the
+same effect with a worse race in it.
+
+The same rule covers the box's own services. One that dies is **reported and
+left dead** — nothing else in the guest is watching them, so a death that is
+not said here is a box that looks healthy and cannot work.
+
+**One launch at a time.** A launch arriving while one is running is refused,
+carrying the id it was asked for, rather than queued or silently replacing it:
+a box has one screen, so a second concurrent launch has nowhere to draw.
A signalled workload is reported as signalled, with no exit code. Reporting
`0` for a killed process would make a kill look like a clean run.
### What is not here yet
-`geometry` is carried and parsed but nothing consumes it: nesinit does not
-start the guest's own services yet. `ticket` exists as a message with no
-producer wired to it.
+**It has never been PID 1 of anything.** Every line of this is written for a
+box and all of it has been tested outside one. It runs perfectly well as an
+ordinary process — it warns rather than fails when it is not PID 1 — which is
+how most of it is exercised, and is also how a guest that will not boot gets
+debugged: `init=/bin/bash` on the kernel command line, then run this by hand
+and watch it fail.
+
+Output geometry is deliberately absent from this layer. The compositor is
+started by a launch, with that launch's geometry in its own arguments, so the
+numbers appear in one place rather than two that can disagree.
### Testing
diff --git a/apps/nesinit/src/filesystems.rs b/apps/nesinit/src/filesystems.rs
index 04d03d5e..05cb5fd5 100644
--- a/apps/nesinit/src/filesystems.rs
+++ b/apps/nesinit/src/filesystems.rs
@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@ struct Early {
/// so a device node or a setuid bit appearing in one did not come from us.
const NOSUID_NODEV: libc::c_ulong = libc::MS_NOSUID | libc::MS_NODEV;
+// Every tmpfs below is capped, and the caps are load-bearing rather than
+// tidiness. A tmpfs with no `size=` may grow to half of RAM, and the RAM in
+// question is the box's whole allowance — so an uncapped `/tmp` is a workload
+// that can OOM the box it runs in by writing files. The numbers are carried
+// over from the mount table this replaced, where they were already considered.
+
const EARLY: &[Early] = &[
Early {
source: "proc",
@@ -41,6 +47,38 @@ const EARLY: &[Early] = &[
cost: "this process cannot make itself ineligible for the OOM killer, \
and nothing in the guest can read its own state",
},
+ // Usually already there: a kernel built with `CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT` mounts
+ // this before init runs. Listed anyway because the check below skips what
+ // is already mounted, so the entry costs nothing when the kernel did it and
+ // is the difference between a working box and one with no device nodes when
+ // it did not. Without `nodev`, obviously — device nodes are the point.
+ Early {
+ source: "devtmpfs",
+ target: "/dev",
+ fstype: "devtmpfs",
+ flags: libc::MS_NOSUID,
+ data: "mode=755",
+ cost: "there are no device nodes at all, so nothing can open the GPU",
+ },
+ Early {
+ source: "devpts",
+ target: "/dev/pts",
+ fstype: "devpts",
+ flags: NOSUID_NODEV | libc::MS_NOEXEC,
+ data: "mode=620,gid=5,ptmxmode=666",
+ cost: "nothing that wants a terminal can allocate one",
+ },
+ // The image creates this directory, and the mode is the load-bearing part:
+ // a workload and the box's own services are different users, and shared
+ // memory between them is how a Vulkan client hands buffers around.
+ Early {
+ source: "tmpfs",
+ target: "/dev/shm",
+ fstype: "tmpfs",
+ flags: NOSUID_NODEV,
+ data: "mode=1777,size=256m",
+ cost: "anything using shared memory fails, which includes most graphics",
+ },
Early {
source: "sysfs",
target: "/sys",
@@ -59,7 +97,7 @@ const EARLY: &[Early] = &[
flags: NOSUID_NODEV,
// The sticky bit, because the workload does not run as this process
// does and what it binds here is its own.
- data: "mode=1777",
+ data: "mode=1777,size=64m",
cost: "whatever serves this session's address cannot bind its socket, \
so the session never gets one",
},
@@ -74,20 +112,51 @@ const EARLY: &[Early] = &[
// Octal, and without a leading zero on purpose: the kernel parses a
// tmpfs mode as octal either way, and this is the spelling `mount`
// itself documents.
- data: "mode=755",
+ data: "mode=755,size=32m",
cost: "there is nowhere for a runtime socket to live, so neither the \
payload relay nor this session's address can be served",
},
+ // The tree a session's shares are mounted into.
+ //
+ // A share's target is named by the descriptor and may be any path under
+ // here, so something has to create directories on a root that is read-only
+ // by design. That is what this is: `workload::mount` calls `create_dir_all`
+ // on each target, which fails with `EROFS` unless the tree it is creating
+ // in is writable.
+ //
+ // **This entry used to be forbidden, and the reason it was forbidden is
+ // gone.** A test here asserted that `/nestri` must never be mounted over,
+ // because a fresh tmpfs would hide the install, the user state and the work
+ // directory that the image had prepared underneath. That was true of the
+ // image that shipped those directories and an `fstab` that mounted into
+ // them. The image prepares nothing here now — the host names every share
+ // and every target — so there is nothing left to hide, and the rule had
+ // become a guard on a hazard that was deleted with the image that had it.
+ // ref(d-0064)
+ //
+ // Small on purpose. Everything real is mounted *over* this, so what remains
+ // is a handful of empty directories; the cap matters for the case where a
+ // share fails to mount and a workload writes to the bare mount point
+ // instead, which would otherwise be RAM the box cannot get back.
+ Early {
+ source: "tmpfs",
+ target: "/nestri",
+ fstype: "tmpfs",
+ flags: NOSUID_NODEV,
+ data: "mode=755,size=4m",
+ cost: "no share can be mounted, because its target cannot be created on a read-only root",
+ },
// The relay's own directory, and it is deliberately **not** in the tree the
// session's shares live in.
//
- // It was, and that was wrong in a way no test here would have caught: a
- // fresh tmpfs over the share tree hides every directory the image prepared
- // underneath it — the install, the user state, the work directory, and the
- // mount point the log share is attached to from `fstab`. The box then has a
- // socket and none of the places its workload expects to find its files, and
- // the exact-path check below cannot notice, because what `fstab` mounts is
- // a directory *inside* that tree rather than the tree itself.
+ // It was, and moving it out stays right for a reason that outlived the one
+ // originally given. The first reason was that a tmpfs over the share tree
+ // would hide what the image had prepared there; that image is gone and the
+ // entry above now mounts that tree deliberately. The reason that remains is
+ // ownership: this directory is written by this process and by nothing else,
+ // which is what makes the socket in it unreplaceable. The share tree is
+ // mounted into by the host's own shares, so a relay socket living there
+ // would sit in a tree a workload's own share can be attached over.
//
// Owned by this process and writable by nothing else, which is what makes
// the socket in it unreplaceable. The workload reaches it because the
@@ -98,10 +167,22 @@ const EARLY: &[Early] = &[
target: crate::payload::DIRECTORY,
fstype: "tmpfs",
flags: NOSUID_NODEV | libc::MS_NOEXEC,
- data: "mode=755",
+ // One socket lives here, so this is as small as a tmpfs usefully gets.
+ data: "mode=755,size=1m",
cost: "the payload relay cannot bind, so nothing reaches the workload \
over the channel",
},
+ // The root is read-only and some things write here whether or not anything
+ // reads it back. A box's real logs leave over the control channel; this is
+ // so that a library writing a file does not fail on `EROFS` instead.
+ Early {
+ source: "tmpfs",
+ target: "/var/log",
+ fstype: "tmpfs",
+ flags: NOSUID_NODEV | libc::MS_NOEXEC,
+ data: "mode=755,size=16m",
+ cost: "anything that writes a log file fails on a read-only root",
+ },
];
/// Mount what the rest of this component assumes is already there.
@@ -220,6 +301,25 @@ mod tests {
}
}
+ /// **Every tmpfs is capped.** One without a `size=` may grow to half of RAM,
+ /// and the RAM in question is the whole box's — so an uncapped `/tmp` hands
+ /// a workload a way to OOM the box it is running in by writing files. The
+ /// failure looks like a box that died under load rather than like a missing
+ /// mount option, which is why this is a test.
+ #[test]
+ fn no_tmpfs_is_unbounded() {
+ for early in EARLY {
+ if early.fstype != "tmpfs" {
+ continue;
+ }
+ assert!(
+ early.data.contains("size="),
+ "{} is an uncapped tmpfs",
+ early.target
+ );
+ }
+ }
+
/// `/proc` is mounted before `mountinfo` is read, so it has to be first.
#[test]
fn proc_is_the_first_entry() {
@@ -243,20 +343,32 @@ mod tests {
}
/// **Nothing here may be mounted over the tree the session's shares live
- /// in.** A fresh tmpfs there hides every directory the image prepared
- /// underneath — the install, the user state, the work directory, and the
- /// mount point the log share attaches to — and the exact-path check cannot
- /// notice, because what is mounted from `fstab` is a directory inside that
- /// tree rather than the tree itself. So a box would come up with a socket
- /// and without any of the places its workload looks for its files.
+ /// in**, and the share tree itself is mounted so that targets under it can
+ /// be created at all.
+ ///
+ /// This replaces a test that asserted the exact opposite — that `/nestri`
+ /// must never be mounted over — on the grounds that a tmpfs there would
+ /// hide the install, the user state and the work directory the image had
+ /// prepared. The image that prepared them no longer exists; the host names
+ /// every share and every target now, and a read-only root cannot have a
+ /// directory created on it. Measured 2026-09-11: without this entry the
+ /// first real boot refused its own descriptor with
+ /// `/nestri/payload: Read-only file system`.
#[test]
- fn the_share_tree_is_never_mounted_over() {
- for early in EARLY {
- assert_ne!(
- early.target, "/nestri",
- "this hides the directories the image prepared for a session"
- );
- }
+ fn the_share_tree_is_writable_and_the_relay_is_not_inside_it() {
+ let tree = EARLY
+ .iter()
+ .find(|e| e.target == "/nestri")
+ .expect("a share's target cannot be created without this");
+ assert_eq!(tree.fstype, "tmpfs");
+ assert!(
+ tree.data.contains("size="),
+ "an uncapped tmpfs here is RAM a box cannot get back"
+ );
+ assert!(
+ !crate::payload::DIRECTORY.starts_with("/nestri/"),
+ "the relay's socket would sit in a tree a share can be mounted over"
+ );
}
/// The relay's directory is the one this cannot hardcode: it belongs to
diff --git a/apps/nesinit/src/lib.rs b/apps/nesinit/src/lib.rs
index 32df7edd..85730fe0 100644
--- a/apps/nesinit/src/lib.rs
+++ b/apps/nesinit/src/lib.rs
@@ -4,14 +4,20 @@
// nobody else's: reaping whatever the workload orphans, turning a signal into
// an ordered shutdown, and being the guest end of the one channel out.
//
-// It does not know what it is running. It is handed a command, a set of shares
-// and what an exit means, and it carries that out; a field that only makes
-// sense for one kind of workload cannot reach it. ref(d-0033)
+// It does not know what it is running. It is handed a set of shares, and then
+// commands naming what to run and what an exit means, and it carries those out;
+// a field that only makes sense for one kind of workload cannot reach it.
+// ref(d-0033)
+//
+// It is also the box's only init: there is no service manager in the image, so
+// the box's own services come up from a table in this binary. ref(d-0064)
pub mod filesystems;
pub mod payload;
pub mod reap;
+pub mod services;
pub mod session;
pub mod shutdown;
+pub mod system;
pub mod ticket;
pub mod workload;
diff --git a/apps/nesinit/src/main.rs b/apps/nesinit/src/main.rs
index cb44cbed..78c2728c 100644
--- a/apps/nesinit/src/main.rs
+++ b/apps/nesinit/src/main.rs
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ use std::time::Duration;
use nesinit::payload::{self, Ports};
use nesinit::reap::{self, Waiters};
+use nesinit::services::Stack;
use nesinit::session::{self, Outcome};
use nesinit::shutdown::{self, Machine};
use nesinit::ticket;
@@ -45,6 +46,13 @@ fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
// is no `/proc` to score this process in and nowhere to put a socket.
nesinit::filesystems::establish();
+ // Everything a distribution's init scripts used to do, and nothing else is
+ // going to: a hostname, the box's address, the directories a session's
+ // sockets live in, and device nodes something is allowed to open. Before
+ // the runtime, so the few processes it starts are waited for directly
+ // rather than racing the reaper into existence. ref(d-0064)
+ nesinit::system::prepare();
+
// Both before anything is started, so nothing can be orphaned or scored
// in the window where neither is true yet.
if let Err(error) = reap::become_subreaper() {
@@ -80,7 +88,18 @@ fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
// Reached however the session ended, including an error: an init that
// returns leaves the guest running with nothing in it.
- let mut machine = Guest { workload };
+ //
+ // `is_init` is what makes that safe to say. The three machine-wide steps
+ // below — signal everything, kill everything, power off — are correct for
+ // PID 1 of a box and catastrophic anywhere else, and this program is meant
+ // to be runnable by hand: that is how most of it is tested and it is the
+ // documented way to debug a guest that will not boot. Run as root outside a
+ // box, the old path reached `kill(-1)` and `reboot` the moment the control
+ // channel could not be dialled.
+ let mut machine = Guest {
+ workload,
+ is_init: pid == 1,
+ };
shutdown::ordered(&mut machine, GRACE);
unreachable!("power_off does not return");
}
@@ -124,8 +143,13 @@ async fn guest(waiters: &Waiters, workload: &mut Process) -> anyhow::Result outcome?,
+ outcome = session::run(channel, workload, &mut services, &mut ports, &mut found_rx, &untrusted) => outcome?,
signal = asked_to_stop() => {
signal?;
tracing::info!("asked to stop");
@@ -170,6 +194,9 @@ async fn asked_to_stop() -> std::io::Result<()> {
/// The machine, for real.
struct Guest {
workload: Process,
+ /// Whether this process is PID 1, and therefore whether the steps that act
+ /// on *the machine* rather than on our own children may be taken at all.
+ is_init: bool,
}
impl Machine for Guest {
@@ -194,6 +221,13 @@ impl Machine for Guest {
}
fn signal_rest(&mut self, grace: Duration) {
+ if !self.is_init {
+ tracing::warn!(
+ "not PID 1, so not signalling every process: outside a box that \
+ is this machine's processes, not this box's"
+ );
+ return;
+ }
// -1 is every process this one may signal, which as PID 1 is all of
// them but itself. The workload has already stopped by here.
unsafe { libc::kill(-1, libc::SIGTERM) };
@@ -201,15 +235,31 @@ impl Machine for Guest {
}
fn kill_rest(&mut self) {
+ if !self.is_init {
+ return;
+ }
unsafe { libc::kill(-1, libc::SIGKILL) };
wait_for_quiet(Duration::from_secs(1));
}
fn flush_disks(&mut self) {
+ // Harmless anywhere, so it is not guarded: the worst it does outside a
+ // box is flush somebody's page cache.
unsafe { libc::sync() };
}
fn power_off(&mut self) {
+ if !self.is_init {
+ // Everything this process started has been stopped by here, which
+ // is the whole of what it may take responsibility for when it is
+ // not the machine's init. What it prepared — the mounts, the
+ // runtime directories — is deliberately left behind, because that
+ // is exactly what makes a hand-run useful: run it, watch it fail to
+ // reach a control channel that is not there, and then poke at a
+ // guest that is otherwise set up.
+ tracing::warn!("not PID 1, so not powering the machine off");
+ std::process::exit(1);
+ }
// SAFETY: reboot is the only way out of a guest whose init is done.
unsafe { libc::reboot(libc::RB_POWER_OFF) };
// Reached only if the guest refused to power off, which no caller can
diff --git a/apps/nesinit/src/services.rs b/apps/nesinit/src/services.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..856679a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/nesinit/src/services.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,959 @@
+// The box's own services, and the table that is the whole of what a box runs
+// before anything is launched into it.
+//
+// There is no service manager in a box and no init scripts, so this is what
+// replaces them. ref(d-0064)
+//
+// # Why the table is in the binary
+//
+// A unit format would make this configurable, and nothing wants to configure
+// it: the services in a box are ours, they are the same in every box, and a
+// table in a file is a table two images can disagree about. Being able to run
+// on any distribution comes from depending on no distribution's init scripts,
+// which this does — not from being told what to start.
+//
+// # What is deliberately not here
+//
+// **The compositor.** It wraps the workload and is started by a launch, with
+// that launch's geometry, and dies with it. A compositor in this table would be
+// a compositor with no geometry to come up with.
+//
+// **Restarting.** A service that dies is reported up the channel and left dead.
+// Whether restarting it is repair or a loop is not visible from inside the box.
+//
+// **Readiness beyond "its socket exists".** A service that names a socket is
+// waited for until that socket is there; nothing here asks it a question or
+// waits for a bus name. That much was in the init scripts this replaced and
+// leaving it out was a regression: `spawn` returns at fork, so without it the
+// bus's client is started before the bus is listening and audio comes up
+// against nothing. It races rather than failing — which is the shape this
+// component is least able to see — and the cost of losing the race is a box
+// that boots, reports itself ready, and has no sound.
+//
+// That is as far as it goes. Health checks, restarts and readiness that is not
+// a file on a path would make this a supervisor; see the decision's own
+// falsification list.
+
+use std::os::unix::process::CommandExt;
+
+use nesprotocol::lifecycle::Exit;
+use tokio::sync::mpsc::{Receiver, Sender};
+
+use crate::reap::{Waiters, Watched};
+use crate::workload::Failure;
+
+/// A service that died, and how.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub struct Died {
+ pub name: String,
+ pub exit: Exit,
+}
+
+/// The box's service stack, as the session sees it.
+///
+/// A trait because the interesting behaviour is the session's — that a death is
+/// reported and not repaired, that a stack which will not come up refuses the
+/// box — and none of that needs a process to assert.
+pub trait Services {
+ /// Bring the stack up in order, and name what came up.
+ ///
+ /// Called once, after the shares are mounted and before anything may be
+ /// launched. An empty stack is legitimate: a box with no services still
+ /// boots, and a caller can still launch something that needs none.
+ fn bring_up(&mut self) -> Result, Failure>;
+
+ /// Deaths, as they happen.
+ ///
+ /// A channel rather than a future so the session can wait on it beside the
+ /// control channel, the relay and the address carrier without any of them
+ /// being able to starve the others.
+ fn deaths(&mut self) -> &mut Receiver;
+}
+
+// There is deliberately no ordered `stop_all`, and reverse-order stopping buys
+// nothing on a machine that is about to be powered off. What there is instead
+// is a `Drop` that signals the children this stack started — because the
+// argument for having nothing at all was "this process is PID 1 and the ordered
+// shutdown signals every process", and that is true of a box and false of the
+// way this program is run by hand to debug one. Outside PID 1 the old path left
+// a bus, an audio server and a hub running with sockets nobody was serving.
+
+/// One service, and everything about starting it.
+///
+/// `env` is per-entry rather than inherited: init's own environment is the
+/// kernel's command line and says nothing a service should read.
+pub struct Service {
+ /// What appears in a log line and in `initialized`.
+ pub name: &'static str,
+ pub argv: &'static [&'static str],
+ pub env: &'static [(&'static str, &'static str)],
+ /// Who it runs as. `None` means init's own user, which is root.
+ pub user: Option<(u32, u32)>,
+ /// Said when it will not start, in terms of what stops working. The same
+ /// discipline the early filesystems use: a failure that names a cost can be
+ /// acted on, where "could not start pipewire" cannot.
+ pub cost: &'static str,
+ /// Whether the box is unusable without it.
+ ///
+ /// A required service that will not start refuses the box, because a caller
+ /// launching into it would get a session that comes up and does not work.
+ /// An optional one is reported and stepped over.
+ pub required: bool,
+ /// The umask to exec under, when the default one is wrong.
+ ///
+ /// Only audio sets this, and only because of who has to reach it. A unix
+ /// socket is created `0777` masked by the umask, so the inherited `022`
+ /// gives `0755` -- and connecting to a socket needs *write*, so every user
+ /// but the owner is refused. The services run as one user and a workload
+ /// runs as another, so that is the workload: it finds the socket, cannot
+ /// open it, and plays silently.
+ ///
+ /// `0` rather than a mode in PipeWire's own configuration because the
+ /// socket list lives inside a module's arguments, and a drop-in that
+ /// re-declares that module loads it twice.
+ pub umask: Option,
+ /// A path that exists once this service can be talked to.
+ ///
+ /// `None` means "started is ready", which is true of anything nothing else
+ /// in the table connects to. Where something does connect, the path is the
+ /// socket it connects to: `spawn` returns when the child has been forked,
+ /// which is before that child has bound anything, so the next service in
+ /// the table would otherwise be started against a socket that is not there.
+ ///
+ /// Existence only. Whether the thing behind the socket answers correctly is
+ /// not knowable from here, and a box is not the place to find out.
+ pub ready: Option<&'static str>,
+}
+
+/// How long a service gets to bind its socket before the box gives up on it.
+///
+/// Long enough that a cold boot on a slow disk is not cut short, short enough
+/// that a service which will never bind does not hold the box for a minute
+/// before saying so. What actually happens is that the wait ends in single-
+/// digit milliseconds, because the child binds before its parent gets back to
+/// this loop.
+const READY_TIMEOUT: std::time::Duration = std::time::Duration::from_secs(15);
+
+/// The user the box's own services run as.
+///
+/// **Not the user a workload runs as, and that is the whole reason for the
+/// number.** A workload sharing a user with these can replace a socket one of
+/// them listens on and answer in its place — and the answer that matters is the
+/// address a client is told to connect to. See `ticket::Untrusted`.
+pub const SERVICE_UID: u32 = 1000;
+
+/// Where audio's socket lives, for both the services and the workload.
+///
+/// # Why not the runtime directory
+///
+/// The services run as one user and a workload runs as another, on purpose
+/// (see [`SERVICE_UID`]). A per-user runtime directory is `0700` and named
+/// after its own uid, so a socket in the services' one is in a directory the
+/// workload may not enter, at a path it would not look in anyway.
+///
+/// Measured 2026-09-12: the game rendered and had no sound, because it looked
+/// for audio under its own uid and found nothing. Nothing failed -- a game with
+/// no audio server plays silently.
+///
+/// So audio gets a directory of its own that both users share, named to both
+/// through `PIPEWIRE_RUNTIME_DIR`. The workload still cannot replace a socket
+/// here: the directory belongs to the service user and is not writable by the
+/// workload, which is the property [`crate::ticket::Untrusted`] depends on.
+pub const AUDIO_DIR: &str = "/run/pipewire";
+pub const SERVICE_GID: u32 = 1000;
+
+/// Where a service's runtime sockets live.
+pub const RUNTIME_DIR: &str = "/run/user/1000";
+
+/// Somewhere every service may write.
+///
+/// # The service user's home is on a read-only root
+///
+/// `useradd -m` made `/home/nestri` in the image, and the image is mounted
+/// read-only, so every library that follows XDG conventions to a default under
+/// `$HOME` fails there. Measured 2026-09-12: the session manager could not
+/// write its state on any boot, and anything asking Mesa for a shader cache was
+/// told it was disabled.
+///
+/// The second one is not a warning. Mesa with no writable cache recompiles
+/// every shader on every run, and the symptom a person sees is a black screen
+/// or a frozen game rather than a slow one.
+///
+/// # Under the runtime directory rather than a tmpfs over the home
+///
+/// Mounting a tmpfs at `/home/nestri` would work and would hide the shell
+/// files the image put there, which is how a debug shell loses its prompt and
+/// its history for no stated reason. The runtime directory is already a tmpfs,
+/// already owned by this user, and already made before any service starts.
+///
+/// Per boot, which is correct for these: a service's cache is not state anybody
+/// wants to keep. A *workload's* cache is, and it is pointed at the writable
+/// share it was given instead.
+const WRITABLE: &[(&str, &str)] = &[
+ ("HOME", "/home/nestri"),
+ ("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR", RUNTIME_DIR),
+ ("PIPEWIRE_RUNTIME_DIR", AUDIO_DIR),
+ ("XDG_CACHE_HOME", "/run/user/1000/cache"),
+ ("XDG_STATE_HOME", "/run/user/1000/state"),
+ ("XDG_CONFIG_HOME", "/run/user/1000/config"),
+ ("XDG_DATA_HOME", "/run/user/1000/data"),
+];
+
+/// The stack, in the order it comes up.
+///
+/// Ported from the nine init scripts this replaces, and the ordering is theirs:
+/// the bus before anything that speaks on it, audio before whatever plays into
+/// it, and the hub last because it binds the sockets the rest connect to.
+pub const STACK: &[Service] = &[
+ Service {
+ name: "dbus-system",
+ argv: &[
+ "/usr/bin/dbus-daemon",
+ "--system",
+ "--nofork",
+ "--nopidfile",
+ ],
+ env: &[],
+ user: None,
+ cost: "nothing that speaks on the system bus can find it",
+ required: true,
+ umask: None,
+ ready: None,
+ },
+ Service {
+ name: "dbus-session",
+ argv: &[
+ "/usr/bin/dbus-daemon",
+ "--session",
+ "--nofork",
+ "--nopidfile",
+ "--address=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus",
+ ],
+ env: &[("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR", RUNTIME_DIR)],
+ user: Some((SERVICE_UID, SERVICE_GID)),
+ cost: "audio and anything else expecting a session bus will not start",
+ required: true,
+ umask: None,
+ // Every service after this one is handed this path as its bus address,
+ // and a bus address that is not bound yet is a service that starts,
+ // finds nothing, and carries on without a bus.
+ ready: Some("/run/user/1000/bus"),
+ },
+ Service {
+ name: "pipewire",
+ argv: &["/usr/bin/pipewire"],
+ env: &[
+ ("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR", RUNTIME_DIR),
+ ("PIPEWIRE_RUNTIME_DIR", AUDIO_DIR),
+ ("DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS", "unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus"),
+ ],
+ user: Some((SERVICE_UID, SERVICE_GID)),
+ cost: "the session has no audio at all",
+ required: true,
+ // So the workload, which is not this user, can open the socket.
+ umask: Some(0),
+ // Both the session manager and the sender connect here, and so does
+ // the workload once it starts.
+ ready: Some("/run/pipewire/pipewire-0"),
+ },
+ Service {
+ name: "wireplumber",
+ argv: &["/usr/bin/wireplumber"],
+ env: &[
+ ("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR", RUNTIME_DIR),
+ ("PIPEWIRE_RUNTIME_DIR", AUDIO_DIR),
+ ("DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS", "unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus"),
+ ],
+ user: Some((SERVICE_UID, SERVICE_GID)),
+ // Optional on purpose: pipewire runs without a session manager, so a
+ // box with no wireplumber has audio nodes and nothing routing them,
+ // which is a degraded session rather than no session.
+ cost: "audio devices exist but nothing routes them",
+ required: false,
+ umask: None,
+ ready: None,
+ },
+ Service {
+ name: "neswire",
+ argv: &["/usr/bin/neswire"],
+ env: &[
+ ("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR", RUNTIME_DIR),
+ ("PIPEWIRE_RUNTIME_DIR", AUDIO_DIR),
+ ("DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS", "unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus"),
+ ],
+ user: Some((SERVICE_UID, SERVICE_GID)),
+ cost: "the client gets pictures and no sound",
+ required: false,
+ umask: None,
+ ready: None,
+ },
+ Service {
+ name: "neshub",
+ argv: &["/usr/bin/neshub"],
+ env: &[("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR", RUNTIME_DIR)],
+ user: Some((SERVICE_UID, SERVICE_GID)),
+ // The one whose absence has no workaround: it owns the endpoint, so
+ // without it the session has no address and nothing can reach the box.
+ cost: "the session has no address, so no client can reach it",
+ required: true,
+ umask: None,
+ ready: None,
+ },
+];
+
+/// The stack as running processes.
+pub struct Stack {
+ waiters: Waiters,
+ table: &'static [Service],
+ running: Vec<(&'static str, Watched)>,
+ deaths: Receiver,
+ reported: Sender,
+}
+
+impl Stack {
+ pub fn new(waiters: Waiters) -> Self {
+ Self::from_table(waiters, STACK)
+ }
+
+ /// The same thing against a different table, which is how the ordering and
+ /// the required/optional rule are tested without a `/usr/bin` full of
+ /// services.
+ pub fn from_table(waiters: Waiters, table: &'static [Service]) -> Self {
+ // Small: what goes on it is one line per service death, and a box does
+ // not have many services to lose.
+ let (reported, deaths) = tokio::sync::mpsc::channel(16);
+ Self {
+ waiters,
+ table,
+ running: Vec::new(),
+ deaths,
+ reported,
+ }
+ }
+
+ /// The pids of what is running, for a test that has to ask the kernel
+ /// whether they are still there. Nothing in the program uses it: signalling
+ /// happens in `Drop`, where the pids are already to hand.
+ pub fn pids(&self) -> Vec {
+ self.running.iter().map(|(_, w)| w.pid).collect()
+ }
+
+ /// Wait for a service to bind the socket it said it would.
+ ///
+ /// Blocking, on a worker of a multi-threaded runtime: bring-up is a sequence
+ /// and there is nothing else for this task to do while it waits. Polling rather
+ /// than an inotify watch because the directory may not exist yet either, and a
+ /// watch that has to handle that is more machinery than 15 seconds of `stat`.
+ ///
+ /// A failure is the same shape as a failure to start, so the required/optional
+ /// rule above decides what it costs: a required service that never binds refuses
+ /// the box, an optional one is stepped over.
+ fn await_ready(&self, service: &Service, before: Option) -> Result<(), Failure> {
+ let Some(path) = service.ready else {
+ return Ok(());
+ };
+ // The watch for what was just started, so a service that dies during its
+ // own bring-up is not waited out for the full timeout.
+ let started = self.running.last().map(|(_, watched)| watched.pid);
+ await_path(
+ service.name,
+ path,
+ before,
+ &|| started.is_none_or(is_alive),
+ READY_TIMEOUT,
+ )
+ }
+
+ fn spawn(&mut self, service: &'static Service) -> Result<(), Failure> {
+ let Some((program, args)) = service.argv.split_first() else {
+ return Err(Failure::new(format!(
+ "{}: the command is empty",
+ service.name
+ )));
+ };
+
+ // The standard library's process rather than the runtime's: the runtime
+ // reaps the children it spawns, and in this component reaping belongs
+ // to one place. See `reap::Waiters`.
+ let mut command = std::process::Command::new(program);
+ command.args(args);
+ command.env_clear();
+ command.envs(WRITABLE.iter().copied());
+ // The service's own entry last, so a service that states one of these
+ // for itself wins over the defaults above.
+ command.envs(service.env.iter().copied());
+
+ let mask = service.umask;
+ if let Some((uid, gid)) = service.user {
+ // SAFETY: the closure runs between fork and exec in the child,
+ // where only async-signal-safe calls are allowed. These two are,
+ // and it allocates nothing.
+ unsafe {
+ command.pre_exec(move || {
+ if let Some(mask) = mask {
+ // SAFETY: `umask` cannot fail and touches only this
+ // child, between fork and exec.
+ libc::umask(mask as libc::mode_t);
+ }
+ // gid first: dropping the uid first would lose the
+ // privilege needed to set the gid at all.
+ if libc::setgid(gid) != 0 {
+ return Err(std::io::Error::last_os_error());
+ }
+ if libc::setuid(uid) != 0 {
+ return Err(std::io::Error::last_os_error());
+ }
+ Ok(())
+ });
+ }
+ }
+
+ let mut watched = self
+ .waiters
+ .watch(|| Ok(command.spawn()?.id() as i32))
+ .map_err(|error| Failure::new(format!("{}: {error}", service.name)))?;
+
+ // The exit is moved onto a task that turns it into one line on the
+ // channel. Nothing here awaits it: bring-up is a sequence of starts,
+ // and a service that exits during it is a death like any other.
+ let exit = watched.take_exit().expect("a new watch has its exit");
+ let reported = self.reported.clone();
+ let name = service.name;
+ tokio::spawn(async move {
+ let exit = match exit.await {
+ Ok(exit) => exit,
+ // The watch was dropped, which happens on the way down. There
+ // is nothing to report and nobody left to report it to.
+ Err(_) => return,
+ };
+ let _ = reported
+ .send(Died {
+ name: name.to_string(),
+ exit,
+ })
+ .await;
+ });
+
+ self.running.push((service.name, watched));
+ Ok(())
+ }
+}
+
+impl Services for Stack {
+ fn bring_up(&mut self) -> Result, Failure> {
+ let mut up = Vec::new();
+ // Lifted out so the loop does not hold a borrow of `self` across the
+ // start it is asking for.
+ let table = self.table;
+ for service in table {
+ // Taken before the service is started, because what makes a
+ // socket this service's is that it was not there -- or was a
+ // different file -- a moment ago.
+ let before = service.ready.and_then(identity_of);
+ match self
+ .spawn(service)
+ .and_then(|()| self.await_ready(service, before))
+ {
+ Ok(()) => {
+ tracing::info!(service = service.name, "started");
+ up.push(service.name.to_string());
+ }
+ Err(failure) if service.required => {
+ // Named with its cost rather than only its error: which
+ // service failed decides whether the box is worth having,
+ // and that judgement is made outside the box.
+ return Err(Failure::new(format!(
+ "{} — {}",
+ failure.reason, service.cost
+ )));
+ }
+ Err(failure) => tracing::warn!(
+ service = service.name,
+ cost = service.cost,
+ "could not start, and the box goes on without it: {}",
+ failure.reason
+ ),
+ }
+ }
+ Ok(up)
+ }
+
+ fn deaths(&mut self) -> &mut Receiver {
+ &mut self.deaths
+ }
+}
+
+impl Drop for Stack {
+ /// Ask everything this stack started to stop.
+ ///
+ /// The stack owns these processes and nothing else does, so its going away
+ /// is the last moment anything knows their pids. As PID 1 the ordered
+ /// shutdown would reach them anyway and a second SIGTERM costs nothing;
+ /// run by hand it is the only thing that reaches them at all.
+ ///
+ /// Asked, not waited for: this runs while the runtime is going down, so
+ /// there is nothing left to reap them with. A signalled child that outlives
+ /// this process is reparented and dies on its own, which is the outcome we
+ /// wanted; an unsignalled one keeps its sockets.
+ fn drop(&mut self) {
+ for (name, watched) in &self.running {
+ // The same rule as everywhere else that signals: a pid that has
+ // been reaped may already belong to something else.
+ if !watched.running() {
+ continue;
+ }
+ tracing::debug!(service = name, pid = watched.pid, "stopping");
+ // SAFETY: two integers, and a pid that has gone fails with ESRCH.
+ unsafe { libc::kill(watched.pid, libc::SIGTERM) };
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+/// Which file is at a path, as the kernel tells them apart.
+///
+/// Device and inode rather than a modification time: a socket rebound in the
+/// same second has the same mtime, and `dbus-daemon` and `pipewire` both unlink
+/// and bind afresh, which is a new inode every time.
+type Identity = (u64, u64);
+
+fn identity_of(path: &str) -> Option {
+ use std::os::unix::fs::MetadataExt;
+ std::fs::metadata(path).ok().map(|at| (at.dev(), at.ino()))
+}
+
+/// Whether a pid is still a process at all.
+///
+/// Signal 0 sends nothing and only asks. A child that has exited and not yet
+/// been reaped still answers, which is why this is a second opinion rather than
+/// the only one -- the watch's own record is the first.
+fn is_alive(pid: i32) -> bool {
+ // SAFETY: two integers; a pid that has gone fails with ESRCH.
+ unsafe { libc::kill(pid, 0) == 0 }
+}
+
+/// The waiting itself, with the deadline passed in so a test can assert the
+/// giving-up without waiting out a real one.
+fn await_path(
+ name: &str,
+ path: &str,
+ before: Option,
+ alive: &dyn Fn() -> bool,
+ timeout: std::time::Duration,
+) -> Result<(), Failure> {
+ let deadline = std::time::Instant::now() + timeout;
+ loop {
+ // A *different* file than the one that was there before it started.
+ //
+ // Existence alone is not readiness, because `/run` is not always empty
+ // when this starts. In a box it is a fresh tmpfs and anything at these
+ // paths is ours; run by hand -- how a guest that will not boot is
+ // debugged -- the host's own `/run` is underneath, and a socket left by
+ // a previous run, or the developer's own session bus, is sitting at
+ // exactly the path being waited on. Taking that as proof would start
+ // everything downstream against a socket with nothing behind it, and
+ // report the box initialized.
+ //
+ // Compared rather than deleted. Unlinking first would be the obvious
+ // fix and it is the dangerous one: outside a box that path can belong
+ // to something else that is alive and using it.
+ let now = identity_of(path);
+ if now.is_some() && now != before {
+ return Ok(());
+ }
+ // A service that has already left will not bind anything, and waiting
+ // out the full timeout for it buys nothing but a slower failure.
+ if !alive() {
+ return Err(Failure::new(format!(
+ "{name} exited before it bound {path}"
+ )));
+ }
+ if std::time::Instant::now() >= deadline {
+ // The path, because that is the actionable half: a service that
+ // binds somewhere else is indistinguishable from one that never
+ // bound, and only one of those is fixed by looking at the service.
+ let stale = if before.is_some() {
+ ", and what is there is the file that was there before it started"
+ } else {
+ ""
+ };
+ return Err(Failure::new(format!(
+ "{name}: {path} did not appear within {}s of starting it{stale}",
+ timeout.as_secs()
+ )));
+ }
+ std::thread::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_millis(20));
+ }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+pub mod double {
+ use super::*;
+
+ /// A stack that starts nothing, so what the session does with it is the
+ /// only thing under test.
+ pub struct Double {
+ pub brought_up: usize,
+ pub failure: Option,
+ pub names: Vec,
+ deaths: Receiver,
+ pub report: Sender,
+ }
+
+ impl Default for Double {
+ fn default() -> Self {
+ Self::new()
+ }
+ }
+
+ impl Double {
+ pub fn new() -> Self {
+ let (report, deaths) = tokio::sync::mpsc::channel(8);
+ Self {
+ brought_up: 0,
+ failure: None,
+ names: vec!["dbus-system".into(), "neshub".into()],
+ deaths,
+ report,
+ }
+ }
+
+ /// A stack that refuses to come up, which refuses the box.
+ pub fn refuses(reason: &str) -> Self {
+ let mut double = Self::new();
+ double.failure = Some(Failure::new(reason));
+ double
+ }
+ }
+
+ impl Services for Double {
+ fn bring_up(&mut self) -> Result, Failure> {
+ self.brought_up += 1;
+ match &self.failure {
+ Some(failure) => Err(failure.clone()),
+ None => Ok(self.names.clone()),
+ }
+ }
+
+ fn deaths(&mut self) -> &mut Receiver {
+ &mut self.deaths
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+ use super::*;
+
+ /// The services and the workload have to look in the same place, and it
+ /// cannot be either one's runtime directory: those are 0700 and named
+ /// after a uid, and these are deliberately two different users.
+ #[test]
+ fn audio_is_somewhere_both_users_can_reach() {
+ assert!(
+ !AUDIO_DIR.starts_with("/run/user/"),
+ "a per-user runtime directory is 0700 and the other user is not in it"
+ );
+ let audio: Vec<&Service> = STACK
+ .iter()
+ .filter(|s| s.env.iter().any(|(k, _)| *k == "PIPEWIRE_RUNTIME_DIR"))
+ .collect();
+ assert!(
+ !audio.is_empty(),
+ "no service was told where audio lives, so none of them agree"
+ );
+ for service in audio {
+ let told = service
+ .env
+ .iter()
+ .find(|(k, _)| *k == "PIPEWIRE_RUNTIME_DIR")
+ .map(|(_, v)| *v);
+ assert_eq!(
+ told,
+ Some(AUDIO_DIR),
+ "{} looks somewhere else",
+ service.name
+ );
+ }
+ }
+
+ /// A service others connect to is waited for, and the path waited on is
+ /// the path they are given.
+ ///
+ /// Two constants that have to agree and are written in two places is how
+ /// three of the four crossings in ref(d-0065) broke, so they are compared
+ /// here rather than trusted to stay in step.
+ #[test]
+ fn what_is_waited_for_is_where_the_others_are_told_to_look() {
+ let bus = STACK
+ .iter()
+ .find(|s| s.name == "dbus-session")
+ .expect("the session bus is in the table");
+ let waited = bus.ready.expect(
+ "without this, everything handed this bus address is started before \
+ anything is listening on it",
+ );
+ let address = format!("unix:path={waited}");
+ let clients: Vec<&Service> = STACK
+ .iter()
+ .filter(|s| s.env.iter().any(|(k, _)| *k == "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"))
+ .collect();
+ assert!(!clients.is_empty(), "nothing was told where the bus is");
+ for client in clients {
+ let told = client
+ .env
+ .iter()
+ .find(|(k, _)| *k == "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS")
+ .map(|(_, v)| *v);
+ assert_eq!(
+ told,
+ Some(address.as_str()),
+ "{} connects somewhere the box never waited for",
+ client.name
+ );
+ }
+
+ let pipewire = STACK
+ .iter()
+ .find(|s| s.name == "pipewire")
+ .expect("audio is in the table");
+ let waited = pipewire.ready.expect("audio is connected to by everything");
+ assert!(
+ waited.starts_with(AUDIO_DIR),
+ "audio is waited for at {waited} and served from {AUDIO_DIR}"
+ );
+ }
+
+ /// A service that names no socket is ready when it has been started, and
+ /// the wait has to be free in that case: most of the table is like this.
+ #[test]
+ fn a_service_that_names_no_socket_is_not_waited_for() {
+ let hub = STACK
+ .iter()
+ .find(|s| s.name == "neshub")
+ .expect("the hub is in the table");
+ assert!(hub.ready.is_none());
+ let stack = Stack::from_table(Waiters::new(), STACK);
+ stack
+ .await_ready(hub, None)
+ .expect("a service with nothing to wait for waited anyway");
+ }
+
+ /// A file that was already there is not this service's socket.
+ ///
+ /// In a box `/run` is a fresh tmpfs and anything at these paths is ours.
+ /// Run by hand -- which is how a guest that will not boot is debugged --
+ /// the host's own `/run` is underneath, and a socket from a previous run or
+ /// the developer's own session bus sits at exactly the path being waited
+ /// on. Taking it as proof starts everything downstream against a socket
+ /// with nothing behind it and reports the box initialized.
+ #[test]
+ fn a_file_that_was_there_before_is_not_proof_that_anything_started() {
+ let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("nesinit-stale-{}", std::process::id()));
+ std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).expect("a directory to put a stale socket in");
+ let path = dir.join("bus");
+ std::fs::write(&path, b"a socket from a previous run").expect("the stale file");
+ let at = path.to_str().expect("a path");
+
+ let before = identity_of(at);
+ assert!(before.is_some(), "the stale file is there to be found");
+
+ let failure = await_path(
+ "dbus-session",
+ at,
+ before,
+ &|| true,
+ std::time::Duration::from_millis(50),
+ )
+ .expect_err("a file from before was taken as this service's socket");
+ assert!(
+ failure.reason.contains("before it started"),
+ "the reason has to say which of the two failures this is: {}",
+ failure.reason
+ );
+
+ // Replaced, which is what binding a unix socket does: both daemons
+ // here unlink and bind afresh, so the inode is new.
+ std::fs::remove_file(&path).expect("removing the stale file");
+ std::fs::write(&path, b"the new one").expect("the new file");
+ await_path(
+ "dbus-session",
+ at,
+ before,
+ &|| true,
+ std::time::Duration::from_millis(50),
+ )
+ .expect("a different file at the path is this service's socket");
+
+ std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+ }
+
+ /// A service that died during its own bring-up is not waited out.
+ ///
+ /// The timeout is fifteen seconds and a dead service will never bind, so
+ /// the box would take that long to say something it already knew -- once
+ /// per service, in order.
+ #[test]
+ fn a_service_that_has_already_left_is_not_waited_for() {
+ let began = std::time::Instant::now();
+ let failure = await_path(
+ "pipewire",
+ "/nonexistent/pipewire-0",
+ None,
+ &|| false,
+ std::time::Duration::from_secs(15),
+ )
+ .expect_err("a dead service was treated as ready");
+ assert!(
+ failure.reason.contains("exited before it bound"),
+ "{}",
+ failure.reason
+ );
+ assert!(
+ began.elapsed() < std::time::Duration::from_secs(1),
+ "it waited out the timeout for a service that had already gone"
+ );
+ }
+
+ /// A socket that never appears is a failure, not a wait that ends quietly.
+ ///
+ /// The distinction matters because the required/optional rule above acts on
+ /// it: a required service that never binds has to refuse the box rather
+ /// than let one boot that reports itself ready and does not work.
+ #[test]
+ fn a_socket_that_never_appears_is_a_failure_that_names_it() {
+ let failure = await_path(
+ "pipewire",
+ "/nonexistent/pipewire-0",
+ None,
+ &|| true,
+ std::time::Duration::from_millis(50),
+ )
+ .expect_err("a socket that is not there was treated as ready");
+ assert!(failure.reason.contains("pipewire"), "{}", failure.reason);
+ assert!(
+ failure.reason.contains("/nonexistent/pipewire-0"),
+ "{}",
+ failure.reason
+ );
+ }
+
+ /// A unix socket is created 0777 masked by the umask, and connecting to
+ /// one needs write. The inherited 022 therefore refuses every user but the
+ /// owner -- and the workload is not the owner.
+ #[test]
+ fn the_audio_socket_is_reachable_by_a_user_who_does_not_own_it() {
+ let pipewire = STACK
+ .iter()
+ .find(|s| s.name == "pipewire")
+ .expect("audio is in the table");
+ assert_eq!(
+ pipewire.umask,
+ Some(0),
+ "with any other umask the game finds the socket and cannot open it"
+ );
+ }
+
+ /// The two that failed on a real boot, and the reason each matters.
+ #[test]
+ fn every_service_has_somewhere_to_write() {
+ let names: Vec<&str> = WRITABLE.iter().map(|(k, _)| *k).collect();
+ assert!(
+ names.contains(&"XDG_STATE_HOME"),
+ "the session manager could not write its state on any boot"
+ );
+ assert!(
+ names.contains(&"XDG_CACHE_HOME"),
+ "no shader cache means recompiling every shader every run, and \
+ what that looks like is a black screen rather than a slow one"
+ );
+ for (_, path) in WRITABLE {
+ if path.starts_with("/run/") || *path == "/home/nestri" {
+ continue;
+ }
+ panic!("{path} is not somewhere a read-only root lets a service write");
+ }
+ }
+
+ /// The table is data, and the things that make it wrong are checkable
+ /// without running any of it.
+ #[test]
+ fn every_service_can_be_started_and_says_what_it_costs() {
+ for service in STACK {
+ assert!(!service.name.is_empty(), "a service with no name");
+ assert!(!service.argv.is_empty(), "{}: nothing to run", service.name);
+ assert!(
+ service.argv[0].starts_with('/'),
+ "{}: not an absolute path, so it depends on a PATH init does not set",
+ service.name
+ );
+ assert!(
+ !service.cost.is_empty(),
+ "{}: no cost, so a failure cannot be judged from outside",
+ service.name
+ );
+ }
+ }
+
+ #[test]
+ fn no_service_is_named_twice() {
+ let mut names: Vec<_> = STACK.iter().map(|s| s.name).collect();
+ names.sort_unstable();
+ let count = names.len();
+ names.dedup();
+ assert_eq!(count, names.len(), "two services share a name: {names:?}");
+ }
+
+ /// The compositor is started by a launch, with that launch's geometry. One
+ /// in this table would be one with no geometry to come up with.
+ #[test]
+ fn the_compositor_is_not_a_service() {
+ for service in STACK {
+ assert!(
+ !service.name.contains("scope") && !service.argv[0].contains("nescope"),
+ "the compositor is in the service table: {}",
+ service.name
+ );
+ }
+ }
+
+ /// Every service runs as init or as the one service user, and never as
+ /// anything else.
+ ///
+ /// The uid a workload runs as arrives in its launch and is not known here,
+ /// so this cannot compare the two directly. What it can do is refuse a
+ /// third user appearing in this table — because the separation that matters
+ /// is that a workload never shares a user with these, and a service quietly
+ /// given some other uid is how that stops being true. A workload sharing a
+ /// user with a service can replace a socket it listens on and answer in its
+ /// place, and the answer that matters is the address a client is told to
+ /// connect to. See `ticket::Untrusted`.
+ #[test]
+ fn a_service_runs_as_init_or_as_the_service_user_and_nothing_else() {
+ for service in STACK {
+ if let Some((uid, gid)) = service.user {
+ assert_eq!(
+ (uid, gid),
+ (SERVICE_UID, SERVICE_GID),
+ "{} runs as a third user",
+ service.name
+ );
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ /// A required service whose absence has a workaround should not be
+ /// required, and an optional one whose absence has none should not be
+ /// optional. Only the second half is checkable, and it is the one that
+ /// matters: the address is what a client needs.
+ #[test]
+ fn whatever_owns_the_address_is_required() {
+ let hub = STACK
+ .iter()
+ .find(|s| s.name == "neshub")
+ .expect("something has to own the endpoint");
+ assert!(
+ hub.required,
+ "a box with no address is a box nothing can reach"
+ );
+ }
+}
diff --git a/apps/nesinit/src/session.rs b/apps/nesinit/src/session.rs
index a94e0b33..c40d8bc8 100644
--- a/apps/nesinit/src/session.rs
+++ b/apps/nesinit/src/session.rs
@@ -1,44 +1,76 @@
// The guest end of the control channel.
//
// The shape of the exchange, and none of it is negotiable from this side: the
-// guest speaks first with its version, is handed one boot descriptor, and from
-// then on reports. It is not a supervisor: when the workload ends, the exit
-// goes up the channel and this returns. Starting something again is the
-// caller's decision, because the caller is the only end that can see whether
-// restarting is repair or a loop. ref(d-0033)
+// guest speaks first with its version, is handed one document describing the
+// box, brings the box's own services up, says so — and then takes commands for
+// as long as the box lives. ref(d-0064)
+//
+// It is not a supervisor. Nothing here restarts anything of its own accord: a
+// workload's exit is reported, a service's death is reported, and starting
+// something again is the caller's decision, because the caller is the only end
+// that can see whether restarting is repair or a loop. ref(d-0033)
+//
+// # One launch at a time
+//
+// A box may be launched into many times over its life, and not twice at once.
+// A launch arriving while one is running is refused with the id it was asked
+// for, rather than queued or silently replacing it — a box has one compositor
+// and one screen, so a second concurrent launch has nowhere to draw. Nothing
+// in the wire format forbids it if that ever changes; this is a property of
+// this implementation and it says so where it refuses.
use nesprotocol::lifecycle::{
- CONTROL_VERSION, Exit, GuestToHost, HostToGuest, Payload, from_line, to_line,
+ CONTROL_VERSION, Exec, Exit, GuestToHost, HostToGuest, LaunchId, OnExit, Payload, from_line,
+ to_line,
};
use tokio::io::{AsyncBufReadExt, AsyncRead, AsyncWrite, AsyncWriteExt, BufReader};
use crate::payload::Ports;
+use crate::services::{Died, Services};
use crate::workload::{Exited, Failure, Workload};
use tokio::sync::mpsc::Receiver;
/// How a session ended.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub enum Outcome {
- /// The workload ended and the exit was reported.
+ /// A launch whose exit was terminal ended, and the exit was reported.
WorkloadExited(Exit),
/// The caller asked for a shutdown.
Shutdown,
/// The channel closed under us. Not an error by itself — a caller that has
/// stopped listening has also stopped being able to tell us to stop.
ChannelClosed,
- /// The descriptor could not be carried out. The reason is the operating
- /// system's, verbatim.
+ /// The box could not be made. The reason is the operating system's,
+ /// verbatim.
+ ///
+ /// This is the descriptor or the service stack, never a launch: a command
+ /// that will not run is reported and the box stays up, because a box that
+ /// dies of a bad `argv` cannot be told a better one.
Refused(Failure),
}
+/// The launch that is running, and what it would take to start it again.
+struct Current {
+ id: LaunchId,
+ /// Kept so a restart is the same command rather than a new one the caller
+ /// has to re-send.
+ exec: Exec,
+ on_exit: OnExit,
+ exited: Exited,
+ /// Set by `restart`, read when the exit arrives. A restart is a kill
+ /// followed by a launch and this is the "followed by".
+ relaunch: bool,
+}
+
/// Run one session over an already-connected channel.
///
/// Generic over the channel so the exchange can be driven from a test without
/// a VM: the transport contributes nothing to the protocol beyond ordering and
/// framing, which any byte stream has.
-pub async fn run(
+pub async fn run(
channel: C,
workload: &mut W,
+ services: &mut S,
payload: &mut Ports,
addresses: &mut Receiver,
untrusted: &crate::ticket::Untrusted,
@@ -46,8 +78,9 @@ pub async fn run(
where
C: AsyncRead + AsyncWrite,
W: Workload,
+ S: Services,
{
- match converse(channel, workload, payload, addresses, untrusted).await {
+ match converse(channel, workload, services, payload, addresses, untrusted).await {
Err(error) if channel_gone(&error) => {
// A caller that has stopped reading has also stopped being able to
// tell us to stop, which is the same situation as the channel
@@ -69,9 +102,10 @@ fn channel_gone(error: &std::io::Error) -> bool {
)
}
-async fn converse(
+async fn converse(
channel: C,
workload: &mut W,
+ services: &mut S,
payload: &mut Ports,
addresses: &mut Receiver,
untrusted: &crate::ticket::Untrusted,
@@ -79,6 +113,7 @@ async fn converse(
where
C: AsyncRead + AsyncWrite,
W: Workload,
+ S: Services,
{
let (reader, mut writer) = tokio::io::split(channel);
let mut lines = BufReader::new(reader).lines();
@@ -94,29 +129,88 @@ where
)
.await?;
- let mut running: Option = None;
+ let mut running: Option = None;
+ let mut booted = false;
let mut relay_open = true;
let mut carrier_open = true;
+ // Guarded like the other two, and for the same reason: a closed channel
+ // resolves immediately and forever, so an unguarded branch on one turns
+ // this loop into a spin that still looks like it is waiting.
+ let mut services_open = true;
loop {
let event = match running.as_mut() {
- Some(exited) => tokio::select! {
- ended = exited => Event::Ended(ended?),
+ Some(current) => tokio::select! {
+ ended = &mut current.exited => Event::Ended(ended?),
line = lines.next_line() => Event::Line(line?),
up = payload.from_workload.recv(), if relay_open => Event::FromWorkload(up),
found = addresses.recv(), if carrier_open => Event::Address(found),
+ gone = services.deaths().recv(), if services_open => Event::ServiceDied(gone),
},
None => tokio::select! {
line = lines.next_line() => Event::Line(line?),
up = payload.from_workload.recv(), if relay_open => Event::FromWorkload(up),
found = addresses.recv(), if carrier_open => Event::Address(found),
+ gone = services.deaths().recv(), if services_open => Event::ServiceDied(gone),
},
};
let line = match event {
Event::Ended(exit) => {
- send(&mut writer, &GuestToHost::WorkloadExited { exit }).await?;
- return Ok(Outcome::WorkloadExited(exit));
+ // Taken before anything is sent: whatever happens next, this
+ // launch is no longer the running one, and a failure to
+ // relaunch must not leave a dead launch looking live.
+ let ended = running.take().expect("an exit came from a launch");
+ send(
+ &mut writer,
+ &GuestToHost::WorkloadExited {
+ id: ended.id.clone(),
+ exit,
+ },
+ )
+ .await?;
+
+ if ended.relaunch {
+ // A restart is a kill followed by a launch of the same
+ // command, and this is the second half. The id is kept, so
+ // a caller sees the exit and then the same launch running
+ // again rather than having to correlate a new name.
+ running = start(
+ &mut writer,
+ workload,
+ untrusted,
+ ended.id,
+ ended.exec,
+ ended.on_exit,
+ )
+ .await?;
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ // Terminal is the launch's own answer, not this end's. A
+ // non-terminal exit leaves the box up and waiting to be
+ // launched into again, which is the whole point of the box
+ // outliving what runs in it. ref(d-0064)
+ if ended.on_exit.terminal {
+ return Ok(Outcome::WorkloadExited(exit));
+ }
+ tracing::info!(launch = %ended.id, "a launch ended and the box stays up");
+ continue;
+ }
+ Event::ServiceDied(Some(Died { name, exit })) => {
+ // Reported, never repaired. Nothing else in this guest is
+ // watching these, so a death that is not said here is a box
+ // that looks healthy and cannot work. ref(d-0064)
+ tracing::error!(service = %name, ?exit, "a service died");
+ send(&mut writer, &GuestToHost::ServiceDied { name, exit }).await?;
+ continue;
+ }
+ Event::ServiceDied(None) => {
+ // The supervisor is gone, which on the way down is ordinary.
+ // Nothing to report and nothing to end: a box with no service
+ // stack left can still be stopped and still has to report it.
+ services_open = false;
+ continue;
}
Event::FromWorkload(Some(payload)) => {
tracing::debug!(envelope = %payload.summary(), "sending an envelope on");
@@ -166,14 +260,15 @@ where
match message {
HostToGuest::Boot { descriptor } => {
- if running.is_some() {
+ if booted {
tracing::warn!("ignoring a second descriptor: one is read per connection");
continue;
}
+ booted = true;
- // The shares, then the command, and each reported separately.
- // Which of the two failed decides what is worth looking at,
- // so the two are never one message.
+ // The shares, then the services, and each reported separately.
+ // Which of the two failed decides what is worth looking at, so
+ // the two are never one message.
match workload.mount(&descriptor.mounts) {
Ok(()) => send(&mut writer, &GuestToHost::Mounted).await?,
Err(failure) => {
@@ -188,20 +283,18 @@ where
}
}
- // Before the workload exists, so there is no window in which
- // it is running and something else would still be trusted to
- // serve this session's address.
- untrusted.is(descriptor.exec.uid);
-
- match workload.start(&descriptor.exec) {
- Ok(exited) => {
- send(&mut writer, &GuestToHost::Started).await?;
- running = Some(exited);
+ // A box whose own services will not come up cannot be launched
+ // into, so this is refused rather than reported and carried on
+ // from — unlike a launch, which is the caller's to correct.
+ match services.bring_up() {
+ Ok(up) => {
+ tracing::info!(services = up.len(), "the box is ready to be launched into");
+ send(&mut writer, &GuestToHost::Initialized { services: up }).await?
}
Err(failure) => {
send(
&mut writer,
- &GuestToHost::StartFailed {
+ &GuestToHost::InitFailed {
reason: failure.reason.clone(),
},
)
@@ -210,19 +303,142 @@ where
}
}
}
+ HostToGuest::Launch { id, exec, on_exit } => {
+ if !booted {
+ // Before the descriptor there are no shares and no
+ // services, so whatever this launch expects to find is not
+ // there yet. Refused with its own id rather than run into
+ // a box that is not finished.
+ refuse(&mut writer, id, "the box has not been told what it is").await?;
+ continue;
+ }
+ if let Some(current) = &running {
+ let reason = format!("this box is already running a launch: {}", current.id);
+ refuse(&mut writer, id, &reason).await?;
+ continue;
+ }
+ running = start(&mut writer, workload, untrusted, id, exec, on_exit).await?;
+ }
+ HostToGuest::Stop { id } => match &running {
+ // Idempotent, and never ends the session by itself.
+ Some(current) if current.id == id => workload.signal_stop(),
+ // Not an error and not worth failing: a caller stopping
+ // something that has already stopped got what it asked for.
+ // Signalling anyway would aim a kill at whatever is running
+ // now, which is the one thing this must not do.
+ _ => tracing::debug!(launch = %id, "nothing with that id is running to stop"),
+ },
+ HostToGuest::Restart { id } => match running.as_mut() {
+ Some(current) if current.id == id => {
+ // Kill now, launch when the exit arrives. Doing both here
+ // would start the second before the first had gone.
+ current.relaunch = true;
+ workload.signal_stop();
+ }
+ // Nothing is remembered about a launch that has already ended,
+ // so this cannot be a launch in disguise: the caller has the
+ // command and can send it.
+ _ => {
+ refuse(
+ &mut writer,
+ id,
+ "nothing with that id is running to restart",
+ )
+ .await?;
+ }
+ },
HostToGuest::Payload { payload: envelope } => hand_over(payload, envelope),
- HostToGuest::Stop => workload.signal_stop(),
HostToGuest::Shutdown => return Ok(Outcome::Shutdown),
}
}
}
-/// What the session is waiting on, and there are only three things.
+/// Start one launch, reporting which of the two things happened.
+///
+/// Returns `None` when it could not be started, which is not the end of the
+/// session: a box that dies of a bad `argv` cannot be told a better one.
+async fn start(
+ writer: &mut Wr,
+ workload: &mut W,
+ untrusted: &crate::ticket::Untrusted,
+ id: LaunchId,
+ exec: Exec,
+ on_exit: OnExit,
+) -> std::io::Result>
+where
+ W: Workload,
+ Wr: AsyncWrite + Unpin,
+{
+ // **A workload may not be the services' user.** Two things break at once if
+ // it is. The workload could replace a socket one of the services listens
+ // on and answer in its place -- which for the address a client is told to
+ // connect to means answering for the session. And the refusal below is by
+ // uid, so marking the workload untrusted marks the real hub untrusted too,
+ // and the session becomes unreachable by its own defence.
+ //
+ // Refused rather than silently moved to another uid: a launch that runs as
+ // somebody other than who it named is a launch whose files land in the
+ // wrong place, which is a worse day than a launch that did not start.
+ if exec.uid == crate::services::SERVICE_UID {
+ refuse(
+ writer,
+ id,
+ &format!(
+ "a launch may not run as uid {}: that is the box's own service \
+ user, and a workload sharing it can answer for the session",
+ crate::services::SERVICE_UID
+ ),
+ )
+ .await?;
+ return Ok(None);
+ }
+
+ // Before the workload exists, so there is no window in which it is running
+ // and something else would still be trusted to serve this session's
+ // address.
+ untrusted.is(exec.uid);
+
+ match workload.start(&exec) {
+ Ok(exited) => {
+ send(writer, &GuestToHost::Started { id: id.clone() }).await?;
+ Ok(Some(Current {
+ id,
+ exec,
+ on_exit,
+ exited,
+ relaunch: false,
+ }))
+ }
+ Err(failure) => {
+ refuse(writer, id, &failure.reason).await?;
+ Ok(None)
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+/// Say that a launch will not happen, in the words of whatever refused it.
+async fn refuse(writer: &mut Wr, id: LaunchId, reason: &str) -> std::io::Result<()>
+where
+ Wr: AsyncWrite + Unpin,
+{
+ tracing::warn!(launch = %id, reason, "refusing a launch");
+ send(
+ writer,
+ &GuestToHost::StartFailed {
+ id,
+ reason: reason.to_string(),
+ },
+ )
+ .await
+}
+
+/// What the session is waiting on.
enum Event {
Line(Option),
Ended(Exit),
FromWorkload(Option),
Address(Option),
+ ServiceDied(Option),
}
/// Hand an envelope to the relay, and treat a relay that is not there as the
@@ -260,35 +476,51 @@ where
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
+ use crate::services::double::Double as Stack;
use crate::workload::double::Double;
- use nesprotocol::lifecycle::{BootDescriptor, Exec, Geometry, Mount, OnExit};
+ use nesprotocol::lifecycle::{BootDescriptor, Mount};
use tokio::io::{AsyncBufReadExt, AsyncWriteExt, BufReader, DuplexStream};
use tokio::sync::mpsc;
+ /// The box: one share, and nothing about what runs in it.
fn descriptor() -> BootDescriptor {
BootDescriptor {
- exec: Exec {
- argv: vec!["/usr/bin/workload".into(), "--windowed".into()],
- env: Default::default(),
- cwd: None,
- uid: 1000,
- gid: 1000,
- },
mounts: vec![Mount {
tag: "user".into(),
at: "/mnt/user".into(),
ro: false,
}],
- geometry: Geometry {
- width: 1920,
- height: 1080,
- fps: 60,
- hdr: false,
- },
+ }
+ }
+
+ fn exec() -> Exec {
+ Exec {
+ argv: vec!["/usr/bin/workload".into(), "--windowed".into()],
+ env: Default::default(),
+ cwd: None,
+ uid: 1001,
+ gid: 1001,
+ }
+ }
+
+ fn launch(id: &str) -> HostToGuest {
+ HostToGuest::Launch {
+ id: LaunchId::new(id),
+ exec: exec(),
on_exit: OnExit { terminal: true },
}
}
+ /// A launch whose ending is not the session's ending, which is what lets a
+ /// box be launched into again.
+ fn launch_and_stay(id: &str) -> HostToGuest {
+ HostToGuest::Launch {
+ id: LaunchId::new(id),
+ exec: exec(),
+ on_exit: OnExit { terminal: false },
+ }
+ }
+
/// The relay's two ends, as the session sees them, plus the ends a
/// workload on the relay would hold.
fn ports() -> (Ports, mpsc::Receiver, mpsc::Sender) {
@@ -315,6 +547,55 @@ mod tests {
rx
}
+ /// What a session is given, so a test names only the part it is about.
+ struct Given {
+ workload: Double,
+ services: Stack,
+ ports: Ports,
+ addresses: mpsc::Receiver,
+ }
+
+ impl Given {
+ fn new(workload: Double) -> Self {
+ let (ports, down_rx, up_tx) = ports();
+ // The workload's ends of the relay, kept alive so the relay is
+ // neither full nor gone in tests that are not about either.
+ Box::leak(Box::new((down_rx, up_tx)));
+ Self {
+ workload,
+ services: Stack::new(),
+ ports,
+ addresses: nowhere(),
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ /// Start a session and hand back what a test wants to assert against.
+ fn spawn(
+ guest: DuplexStream,
+ given: Given,
+ ) -> tokio::task::JoinHandle<(Outcome, Double, Stack)> {
+ let Given {
+ mut workload,
+ mut services,
+ mut ports,
+ mut addresses,
+ } = given;
+ tokio::spawn(async move {
+ let outcome = run(
+ guest,
+ &mut workload,
+ &mut services,
+ &mut ports,
+ &mut addresses,
+ &crate::ticket::Untrusted::unknown(),
+ )
+ .await
+ .unwrap();
+ (outcome, workload, services)
+ })
+ }
+
/// The other end of the channel, as a caller would drive it.
struct Caller {
lines: tokio::io::Lines>,
@@ -337,10 +618,23 @@ mod tests {
from_line(&line).unwrap()
}
- /// A descriptor being carried out: the shares, then the command.
- async fn expect_started(&mut self) {
+ async fn expect_ready(&mut self) {
+ assert_eq!(
+ self.expect().await,
+ GuestToHost::Ready {
+ protocol_version: CONTROL_VERSION
+ }
+ );
+ }
+
+ /// The descriptor being carried out: the shares, then the box's own
+ /// services. Nothing is launched by either.
+ async fn expect_booted(&mut self) {
assert_eq!(self.expect().await, GuestToHost::Mounted);
- assert_eq!(self.expect().await, GuestToHost::Started);
+ assert!(
+ matches!(self.expect().await, GuestToHost::Initialized { .. }),
+ "the box never said it was ready to be launched into"
+ );
}
async fn say(&mut self, message: &HostToGuest) {
@@ -357,33 +651,523 @@ mod tests {
async fn the_guest_speaks_first_and_says_its_version() {
let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
-
- let session = tokio::spawn(async move {
- let (mut ports, _to_workload, _from_workload) = ports();
- let mut workload = Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0));
- let outcome = run(
- guest,
- &mut workload,
- &mut ports,
- &mut nowhere(),
- &crate::ticket::Untrusted::unknown(),
- )
- .await
- .unwrap();
- (outcome, workload)
- });
+ let session = spawn(guest, Given::new(Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0))));
// Nothing has been sent to the guest, so this can only be unprompted.
+ caller.expect_ready().await;
+
+ caller.say(&HostToGuest::Shutdown).await;
+ let (outcome, _, _) = session.await.unwrap();
+ assert_eq!(outcome, Outcome::Shutdown);
+ }
+
+ /// The descriptor makes the box; it does not run anything. This is the
+ /// property the whole resident arrangement rests on.
+ #[tokio::test]
+ async fn the_descriptor_mounts_and_starts_the_services_and_launches_nothing() {
+ let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
+ let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
+ let session = spawn(guest, Given::new(Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0))));
+
+ caller.expect_ready().await;
+ caller
+ .say(&HostToGuest::Boot {
+ descriptor: Box::new(descriptor()),
+ })
+ .await;
+ caller.expect_booted().await;
+ caller.say(&HostToGuest::Shutdown).await;
+
+ let (outcome, workload, services) = session.await.unwrap();
+ assert_eq!(outcome, Outcome::Shutdown);
+ assert_eq!(workload.mounted, vec![descriptor().mounts]);
+ assert_eq!(services.brought_up, 1);
+ assert!(
+ workload.started.is_empty(),
+ "the descriptor started something, which is a launch's job"
+ );
+ }
+
+ #[tokio::test]
+ async fn a_launch_runs_what_it_names_and_is_reported_by_its_id() {
+ let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
+ let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
+ let session = spawn(guest, Given::new(Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0))));
+
+ caller.expect_ready().await;
+ caller
+ .say(&HostToGuest::Boot {
+ descriptor: Box::new(descriptor()),
+ })
+ .await;
+ caller.expect_booted().await;
+
+ caller.say(&launch("l-1")).await;
assert_eq!(
caller.expect().await,
- GuestToHost::Ready {
- protocol_version: 2
+ GuestToHost::Started {
+ id: LaunchId::new("l-1")
+ }
+ );
+
+ caller
+ .say(&HostToGuest::Stop {
+ id: LaunchId::new("l-1"),
+ })
+ .await;
+ assert_eq!(
+ caller.expect().await,
+ GuestToHost::WorkloadExited {
+ id: LaunchId::new("l-1"),
+ exit: Exit::code(0)
+ }
+ );
+
+ let (outcome, workload, _) = session.await.unwrap();
+ assert_eq!(outcome, Outcome::WorkloadExited(Exit::code(0)));
+ assert_eq!(workload.started, vec![exec()]);
+ }
+
+ /// A box the caller has not described has no shares and no services, so
+ /// whatever a launch expects to find is not there.
+ #[tokio::test]
+ async fn a_launch_before_the_box_exists_is_refused() {
+ let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
+ let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
+ let session = spawn(guest, Given::new(Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0))));
+
+ caller.expect_ready().await;
+ caller.say(&launch("l-1")).await;
+
+ let GuestToHost::StartFailed { id, reason } = caller.expect().await else {
+ panic!("a launch into a box that does not exist was accepted")
+ };
+ assert_eq!(id, LaunchId::new("l-1"), "the refusal names another launch");
+ assert!(!reason.is_empty());
+
+ caller.say(&HostToGuest::Shutdown).await;
+ let (outcome, workload, _) = session.await.unwrap();
+ assert_eq!(outcome, Outcome::Shutdown, "the box died of a bad launch");
+ assert!(workload.started.is_empty());
+ }
+
+ /// Two at once has nowhere to draw. The refusal carries the id that was
+ /// refused, not the one that is running.
+ #[tokio::test]
+ async fn a_second_launch_is_refused_while_the_first_is_running() {
+ let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
+ let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
+ let session = spawn(guest, Given::new(Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0))));
+
+ caller.expect_ready().await;
+ caller
+ .say(&HostToGuest::Boot {
+ descriptor: Box::new(descriptor()),
+ })
+ .await;
+ caller.expect_booted().await;
+
+ caller.say(&launch("l-1")).await;
+ assert_eq!(
+ caller.expect().await,
+ GuestToHost::Started {
+ id: LaunchId::new("l-1")
+ }
+ );
+
+ caller.say(&launch("l-2")).await;
+ let GuestToHost::StartFailed { id, reason } = caller.expect().await else {
+ panic!("a second concurrent launch was accepted")
+ };
+ assert_eq!(
+ id,
+ LaunchId::new("l-2"),
+ "the refusal names the launch that is running rather than the one refused"
+ );
+ assert!(
+ reason.contains("l-1"),
+ "the refusal does not say why: {reason}"
+ );
+
+ caller.say(&HostToGuest::Shutdown).await;
+ let (_, workload, _) = session.await.unwrap();
+ assert_eq!(
+ workload.started.len(),
+ 1,
+ "the second launch ran anyway, so the first was replaced underneath it"
+ );
+ }
+
+ /// A launch that says its ending is not the session's leaves the box up and
+ /// able to be launched into again. This is the whole of what "the box
+ /// outlives what runs in it" means.
+ #[tokio::test]
+ async fn a_box_can_be_launched_into_again_after_a_launch_ends() {
+ let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
+ let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
+ let session = spawn(guest, Given::new(Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0))));
+
+ caller.expect_ready().await;
+ caller
+ .say(&HostToGuest::Boot {
+ descriptor: Box::new(descriptor()),
+ })
+ .await;
+ caller.expect_booted().await;
+
+ caller.say(&launch_and_stay("l-1")).await;
+ assert_eq!(
+ caller.expect().await,
+ GuestToHost::Started {
+ id: LaunchId::new("l-1")
+ }
+ );
+ caller
+ .say(&HostToGuest::Stop {
+ id: LaunchId::new("l-1"),
+ })
+ .await;
+ assert_eq!(
+ caller.expect().await,
+ GuestToHost::WorkloadExited {
+ id: LaunchId::new("l-1"),
+ exit: Exit::code(0)
+ }
+ );
+
+ // The session is still here, which is the assertion.
+ caller.say(&launch_and_stay("l-2")).await;
+ assert_eq!(
+ caller.expect().await,
+ GuestToHost::Started {
+ id: LaunchId::new("l-2")
}
);
caller.say(&HostToGuest::Shutdown).await;
- let (outcome, _) = session.await.unwrap();
+ let (outcome, workload, services) = session.await.unwrap();
assert_eq!(outcome, Outcome::Shutdown);
+ assert_eq!(workload.started.len(), 2);
+ assert_eq!(
+ services.brought_up, 1,
+ "the services were brought up again for a second launch"
+ );
+ }
+
+ /// A restart is a kill followed by a launch of the same command, and both
+ /// halves are visible: the exit is reported and then the same id runs
+ /// again. Nothing is restarted by this end on its own.
+ #[tokio::test]
+ async fn a_restart_reports_the_exit_and_runs_the_same_command_again() {
+ let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
+ let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
+ let session = spawn(guest, Given::new(Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0))));
+
+ caller.expect_ready().await;
+ caller
+ .say(&HostToGuest::Boot {
+ descriptor: Box::new(descriptor()),
+ })
+ .await;
+ caller.expect_booted().await;
+
+ caller.say(&launch("l-1")).await;
+ assert_eq!(
+ caller.expect().await,
+ GuestToHost::Started {
+ id: LaunchId::new("l-1")
+ }
+ );
+
+ caller
+ .say(&HostToGuest::Restart {
+ id: LaunchId::new("l-1"),
+ })
+ .await;
+ assert_eq!(
+ caller.expect().await,
+ GuestToHost::WorkloadExited {
+ id: LaunchId::new("l-1"),
+ exit: Exit::code(0)
+ },
+ "a restart hid the exit it caused"
+ );
+ assert_eq!(
+ caller.expect().await,
+ GuestToHost::Started {
+ id: LaunchId::new("l-1")
+ },
+ "a restart kept the id but did not run again"
+ );
+
+ caller.say(&HostToGuest::Shutdown).await;
+ let (outcome, workload, _) = session.await.unwrap();
+ assert_eq!(outcome, Outcome::Shutdown);
+ assert_eq!(
+ workload.started,
+ vec![exec(), exec()],
+ "a restart ran a different command than the one it restarted"
+ );
+ }
+
+ /// Nothing is remembered about a launch that has ended, so a restart of one
+ /// is refused rather than guessed at from a stale command.
+ #[tokio::test]
+ async fn a_restart_of_nothing_is_refused_and_does_not_end_the_session() {
+ let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
+ let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
+ let session = spawn(guest, Given::new(Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0))));
+
+ caller.expect_ready().await;
+ caller
+ .say(&HostToGuest::Boot {
+ descriptor: Box::new(descriptor()),
+ })
+ .await;
+ caller.expect_booted().await;
+
+ caller
+ .say(&HostToGuest::Restart {
+ id: LaunchId::new("never-ran"),
+ })
+ .await;
+ let GuestToHost::StartFailed { id, .. } = caller.expect().await else {
+ panic!("a restart of nothing was accepted")
+ };
+ assert_eq!(id, LaunchId::new("never-ran"));
+
+ caller.say(&HostToGuest::Shutdown).await;
+ assert_eq!(session.await.unwrap().0, Outcome::Shutdown);
+ }
+
+ /// A stop for something that is not running is what a caller gets when it
+ /// stops a launch twice. Signalling anyway would aim a kill at whatever is
+ /// running now, which is the one thing it must not do.
+ #[tokio::test]
+ async fn a_stop_for_a_launch_that_is_not_running_signals_nothing() {
+ let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
+ let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
+ let session = spawn(guest, Given::new(Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0))));
+
+ caller.expect_ready().await;
+ caller
+ .say(&HostToGuest::Boot {
+ descriptor: Box::new(descriptor()),
+ })
+ .await;
+ caller.expect_booted().await;
+
+ caller.say(&launch_and_stay("l-1")).await;
+ assert_eq!(
+ caller.expect().await,
+ GuestToHost::Started {
+ id: LaunchId::new("l-1")
+ }
+ );
+
+ // Something else entirely, while l-1 runs.
+ caller
+ .say(&HostToGuest::Stop {
+ id: LaunchId::new("l-2"),
+ })
+ .await;
+ caller.say(&HostToGuest::Shutdown).await;
+
+ let (outcome, workload, _) = session.await.unwrap();
+ assert_eq!(outcome, Outcome::Shutdown);
+ assert_eq!(
+ workload.stops, 0,
+ "a stop aimed at one launch reached another"
+ );
+ }
+
+ /// A command that will not run is the caller's to correct, so the box stays
+ /// up and can be told a better one.
+ #[tokio::test]
+ async fn a_launch_that_will_not_run_does_not_take_the_box_down() {
+ let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
+ let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
+ let mut workload = Double::exits_at_once(Exit::code(0));
+ workload.start_failure = Some(Failure::new("ENOENT: /usr/bin/workload"));
+ let session = spawn(guest, Given::new(workload));
+
+ caller.expect_ready().await;
+ caller
+ .say(&HostToGuest::Boot {
+ descriptor: Box::new(descriptor()),
+ })
+ .await;
+ caller.expect_booted().await;
+
+ caller.say(&launch("l-1")).await;
+ assert_eq!(
+ caller.expect().await,
+ GuestToHost::StartFailed {
+ id: LaunchId::new("l-1"),
+ reason: "ENOENT: /usr/bin/workload".into()
+ },
+ "the reason is passed through as the operating system wrote it",
+ );
+
+ // Still answering, which is the assertion.
+ caller.say(&HostToGuest::Shutdown).await;
+ assert_eq!(session.await.unwrap().0, Outcome::Shutdown);
+ }
+
+ /// The one uid a launch may not ask for is the one the box's own services
+ /// hold. A workload running as them can replace a socket they listen on and
+ /// answer for the session; and because the carrier refuses peers by uid,
+ /// marking the workload untrusted marks the real hub untrusted with it.
+ ///
+ /// Refused, and nothing is started: a launch moved quietly to another user
+ /// writes its files somewhere nobody asked for.
+ #[tokio::test]
+ async fn a_launch_may_not_run_as_the_services_own_user() {
+ let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
+ let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
+ let session = spawn(guest, Given::new(Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0))));
+
+ caller.expect_ready().await;
+ caller
+ .say(&HostToGuest::Boot {
+ descriptor: Box::new(descriptor()),
+ })
+ .await;
+ caller.expect_booted().await;
+
+ let HostToGuest::Launch { id, mut exec, .. } = launch("l-1") else {
+ unreachable!()
+ };
+ exec.uid = crate::services::SERVICE_UID;
+ exec.gid = crate::services::SERVICE_GID;
+ caller
+ .say(&HostToGuest::Launch {
+ id,
+ exec,
+ on_exit: OnExit { terminal: true },
+ })
+ .await;
+
+ let GuestToHost::StartFailed { id, reason } = caller.expect().await else {
+ panic!("a launch as the service user was accepted")
+ };
+ assert_eq!(id, LaunchId::new("l-1"));
+ assert!(
+ reason.contains(&crate::services::SERVICE_UID.to_string()),
+ "the refusal names the uid it is about: {reason}"
+ );
+
+ caller.say(&HostToGuest::Shutdown).await;
+ let (outcome, workload, _) = session.await.unwrap();
+ assert_eq!(outcome, Outcome::Shutdown, "the refusal ended the box");
+ assert!(
+ workload.started.is_empty(),
+ "the workload was started anyway"
+ );
+ }
+
+ #[tokio::test]
+ async fn a_share_that_will_not_mount_is_refused_before_any_service_starts() {
+ let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
+ let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
+ let mut workload = Double::exits_at_once(Exit::code(0));
+ workload.mount_failure = Some(Failure::new("EACCES: /mnt/user"));
+ let session = spawn(guest, Given::new(workload));
+
+ caller.expect_ready().await;
+ caller
+ .say(&HostToGuest::Boot {
+ descriptor: Box::new(descriptor()),
+ })
+ .await;
+
+ assert_eq!(
+ caller.expect().await,
+ GuestToHost::MountFailed {
+ reason: "EACCES: /mnt/user".into()
+ },
+ "the reason is passed through as the operating system wrote it",
+ );
+
+ let (outcome, workload, services) = session.await.unwrap();
+ assert_eq!(outcome, Outcome::Refused(Failure::new("EACCES: /mnt/user")));
+ assert_eq!(
+ services.brought_up, 0,
+ "the services came up in a box whose shares are not there"
+ );
+ assert!(workload.started.is_empty());
+ }
+
+ /// A box whose own services will not come up cannot be launched into, so it
+ /// is refused — and said with its own message, because a share that did not
+ /// appear and a box that could not be made want different things looked at.
+ #[tokio::test]
+ async fn a_service_stack_that_will_not_come_up_refuses_the_box() {
+ let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
+ let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
+ let mut given = Given::new(Double::exits_at_once(Exit::code(0)));
+ given.services = Stack::refuses("neshub: ENOENT — the session has no address");
+ let session = spawn(guest, given);
+
+ caller.expect_ready().await;
+ caller
+ .say(&HostToGuest::Boot {
+ descriptor: Box::new(descriptor()),
+ })
+ .await;
+
+ assert_eq!(caller.expect().await, GuestToHost::Mounted);
+ let GuestToHost::InitFailed { reason } = caller.expect().await else {
+ panic!("a box with no services said it was ready to be launched into")
+ };
+ assert!(reason.contains("neshub"), "{reason}");
+
+ let (outcome, workload, _) = session.await.unwrap();
+ assert!(matches!(outcome, Outcome::Refused(_)), "{outcome:?}");
+ assert!(workload.started.is_empty());
+ }
+
+ /// Reported, never repaired, and it does not end the session: a box with a
+ /// dead service is still a box somebody has to be told about.
+ #[tokio::test]
+ async fn a_dead_service_is_reported_and_not_restarted() {
+ let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
+ let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
+ let given = Given::new(Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0)));
+ let report = given.services.report.clone();
+ let session = spawn(guest, given);
+
+ caller.expect_ready().await;
+ caller
+ .say(&HostToGuest::Boot {
+ descriptor: Box::new(descriptor()),
+ })
+ .await;
+ caller.expect_booted().await;
+
+ report
+ .send(Died {
+ name: "pipewire".into(),
+ exit: Exit::signal(9),
+ })
+ .await
+ .unwrap();
+ assert_eq!(
+ caller.expect().await,
+ GuestToHost::ServiceDied {
+ name: "pipewire".into(),
+ exit: Exit::signal(9)
+ }
+ );
+
+ // Still answering, and nothing was brought up again.
+ caller.say(&HostToGuest::Shutdown).await;
+ let (outcome, _, services) = session.await.unwrap();
+ assert_eq!(outcome, Outcome::Shutdown);
+ assert_eq!(
+ services.brought_up, 1,
+ "a dead service was restarted by the guest"
+ );
}
/// The address goes up the channel as it is found. This is the only way
@@ -393,28 +1177,12 @@ mod tests {
async fn an_address_that_is_found_is_reported_to_the_caller() {
let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
- let (found_tx, mut found_rx) = mpsc::channel(4);
+ let (found_tx, found_rx) = mpsc::channel(4);
+ let mut given = Given::new(Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0)));
+ given.addresses = found_rx;
+ let session = spawn(guest, given);
- let session = tokio::spawn(async move {
- let (mut ports, _to_workload, _from_workload) = ports();
- let mut workload = Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0));
- run(
- guest,
- &mut workload,
- &mut ports,
- &mut found_rx,
- &crate::ticket::Untrusted::unknown(),
- )
- .await
- .unwrap()
- });
-
- assert_eq!(
- caller.expect().await,
- GuestToHost::Ready {
- protocol_version: 2
- }
- );
+ caller.expect_ready().await;
found_tx
.send("nestri:local-only".to_string())
@@ -441,7 +1209,7 @@ mod tests {
);
caller.say(&HostToGuest::Shutdown).await;
- assert_eq!(session.await.unwrap(), Outcome::Shutdown);
+ assert_eq!(session.await.unwrap().0, Outcome::Shutdown);
}
/// Nothing looking for an address any more is not an ending. The session
@@ -450,105 +1218,49 @@ mod tests {
async fn a_carrier_that_stops_does_not_end_the_session() {
let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
- let (found_tx, mut found_rx) = mpsc::channel(4);
+ let (found_tx, found_rx) = mpsc::channel(4);
+ let mut given = Given::new(Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0)));
+ given.addresses = found_rx;
+ let session = spawn(guest, given);
- let session = tokio::spawn(async move {
- let (mut ports, _to_workload, _from_workload) = ports();
- let mut workload = Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0));
- run(
- guest,
- &mut workload,
- &mut ports,
- &mut found_rx,
- &crate::ticket::Untrusted::unknown(),
- )
- .await
- .unwrap()
- });
-
- assert_eq!(
- caller.expect().await,
- GuestToHost::Ready {
- protocol_version: 2
- }
- );
+ caller.expect_ready().await;
drop(found_tx);
// Still answering, which is the whole assertion.
caller.say(&HostToGuest::Shutdown).await;
- assert_eq!(session.await.unwrap(), Outcome::Shutdown);
- }
-
- #[tokio::test]
- async fn the_descriptor_mounts_and_starts_what_it_names() {
- let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
- let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
-
- let session = tokio::spawn(async move {
- let (mut ports, _to_workload, _from_workload) = ports();
- let mut workload = Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0));
- let outcome = run(
- guest,
- &mut workload,
- &mut ports,
- &mut nowhere(),
- &crate::ticket::Untrusted::unknown(),
- )
- .await
- .unwrap();
- (outcome, workload)
- });
-
- assert!(matches!(caller.expect().await, GuestToHost::Ready { .. }));
- caller
- .say(&HostToGuest::Boot {
- descriptor: Box::new(descriptor()),
- })
- .await;
- caller.say(&HostToGuest::Stop).await;
-
- let (outcome, workload) = session.await.unwrap();
- assert_eq!(outcome, Outcome::WorkloadExited(Exit::code(0)));
- assert_eq!(workload.mounted, vec![descriptor().mounts]);
- assert_eq!(workload.started, vec![descriptor().exec]);
+ assert_eq!(session.await.unwrap().0, Outcome::Shutdown);
}
#[tokio::test]
async fn an_exit_is_reported_and_the_workload_is_not_started_again() {
let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
+ let session = spawn(guest, Given::new(Double::exits_at_once(Exit::code(3))));
- let session = tokio::spawn(async move {
- let (mut ports, _to_workload, _from_workload) = ports();
- let mut workload = Double::exits_at_once(Exit::code(3));
- let outcome = run(
- guest,
- &mut workload,
- &mut ports,
- &mut nowhere(),
- &crate::ticket::Untrusted::unknown(),
- )
- .await
- .unwrap();
- (outcome, workload)
- });
-
- assert!(matches!(caller.expect().await, GuestToHost::Ready { .. }));
+ caller.expect_ready().await;
caller
.say(&HostToGuest::Boot {
descriptor: Box::new(descriptor()),
})
.await;
- caller.expect_started().await;
+ caller.expect_booted().await;
+ caller.say(&launch("l-1")).await;
+ assert_eq!(
+ caller.expect().await,
+ GuestToHost::Started {
+ id: LaunchId::new("l-1")
+ }
+ );
assert_eq!(
caller.expect().await,
GuestToHost::WorkloadExited {
+ id: LaunchId::new("l-1"),
exit: Exit::code(3)
},
);
- let (outcome, workload) = session.await.unwrap();
+ let (outcome, workload, _) = session.await.unwrap();
assert_eq!(outcome, Outcome::WorkloadExited(Exit::code(3)));
assert_eq!(
workload.started.len(),
@@ -561,178 +1273,68 @@ mod tests {
async fn a_signalled_workload_is_reported_as_signalled() {
let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
+ let session = spawn(guest, Given::new(Double::exits_at_once(Exit::signal(9))));
- let session = tokio::spawn(async move {
- let (mut ports, _to_workload, _from_workload) = ports();
- let mut workload = Double::exits_at_once(Exit::signal(9));
- run(
- guest,
- &mut workload,
- &mut ports,
- &mut nowhere(),
- &crate::ticket::Untrusted::unknown(),
- )
- .await
- .unwrap()
- });
-
- assert!(matches!(caller.expect().await, GuestToHost::Ready { .. }));
+ caller.expect_ready().await;
caller
.say(&HostToGuest::Boot {
descriptor: Box::new(descriptor()),
})
.await;
- caller.expect_started().await;
+ caller.expect_booted().await;
+ caller.say(&launch("l-1")).await;
+ assert!(matches!(caller.expect().await, GuestToHost::Started { .. }));
assert_eq!(
caller.expect().await,
GuestToHost::WorkloadExited {
+ id: LaunchId::new("l-1"),
exit: Exit::signal(9)
},
);
assert_eq!(
- session.await.unwrap(),
+ session.await.unwrap().0,
Outcome::WorkloadExited(Exit::signal(9))
);
}
- #[tokio::test]
- async fn a_stop_is_idempotent_and_does_not_end_the_session() {
- let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
- let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
-
- let session = tokio::spawn(async move {
- let (mut ports, _to_workload, _from_workload) = ports();
- let mut workload = Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0));
- let outcome = run(
- guest,
- &mut workload,
- &mut ports,
- &mut nowhere(),
- &crate::ticket::Untrusted::unknown(),
- )
- .await
- .unwrap();
- (outcome, workload)
- });
-
- assert!(matches!(caller.expect().await, GuestToHost::Ready { .. }));
- // No descriptor yet, so there is nothing to stop and the session has
- // to survive being told to anyway.
- caller.say(&HostToGuest::Stop).await;
- caller.say(&HostToGuest::Stop).await;
- caller.say(&HostToGuest::Shutdown).await;
-
- let (outcome, workload) = session.await.unwrap();
- assert_eq!(outcome, Outcome::Shutdown);
- assert_eq!(workload.stops, 2);
- assert!(workload.started.is_empty());
- }
-
- #[tokio::test]
- async fn a_share_that_will_not_mount_is_refused_before_anything_starts() {
- let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
- let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
-
- let session = tokio::spawn(async move {
- let (mut ports, _to_workload, _from_workload) = ports();
- let mut workload = Double::exits_at_once(Exit::code(0));
- workload.mount_failure = Some(Failure::new("EACCES: /mnt/user"));
- let outcome = run(
- guest,
- &mut workload,
- &mut ports,
- &mut nowhere(),
- &crate::ticket::Untrusted::unknown(),
- )
- .await
- .unwrap();
- (outcome, workload)
- });
-
- assert!(matches!(caller.expect().await, GuestToHost::Ready { .. }));
- caller
- .say(&HostToGuest::Boot {
- descriptor: Box::new(descriptor()),
- })
- .await;
-
- assert_eq!(
- caller.expect().await,
- GuestToHost::MountFailed {
- reason: "EACCES: /mnt/user".into()
- },
- "the reason is passed through as the operating system wrote it",
- );
-
- let (outcome, workload) = session.await.unwrap();
- assert_eq!(outcome, Outcome::Refused(Failure::new("EACCES: /mnt/user")));
- assert!(
- workload.started.is_empty(),
- "a workload without its shares is not started"
- );
- }
-
#[tokio::test]
async fn an_unreadable_line_does_not_end_a_session() {
let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
+ let session = spawn(guest, Given::new(Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0))));
- let session = tokio::spawn(async move {
- let (mut ports, _to_workload, _from_workload) = ports();
- let mut workload = Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0));
- run(
- guest,
- &mut workload,
- &mut ports,
- &mut nowhere(),
- &crate::ticket::Untrusted::unknown(),
- )
- .await
- .unwrap()
- });
-
- assert!(matches!(caller.expect().await, GuestToHost::Ready { .. }));
+ caller.expect_ready().await;
caller
.lines
.get_mut()
- .write_all(b"{\"type\":\"from_a_later_version\"}\n")
+ .write_all(br#"{"type":"from_a_later_version"}"#)
.await
.unwrap();
+ caller.lines.get_mut().write_all(b"\n").await.unwrap();
caller.say(&HostToGuest::Shutdown).await;
- assert_eq!(session.await.unwrap(), Outcome::Shutdown);
+ assert_eq!(session.await.unwrap().0, Outcome::Shutdown);
}
#[tokio::test]
async fn a_closed_channel_stops_the_workload() {
let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
+ let session = spawn(guest, Given::new(Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0))));
- let session = tokio::spawn(async move {
- let (mut ports, _to_workload, _from_workload) = ports();
- let mut workload = Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0));
- let outcome = run(
- guest,
- &mut workload,
- &mut ports,
- &mut nowhere(),
- &crate::ticket::Untrusted::unknown(),
- )
- .await
- .unwrap();
- (outcome, workload)
- });
-
- assert!(matches!(caller.expect().await, GuestToHost::Ready { .. }));
+ caller.expect_ready().await;
caller
.say(&HostToGuest::Boot {
descriptor: Box::new(descriptor()),
})
.await;
+ caller.expect_booted().await;
+ caller.say(&launch("l-1")).await;
+ assert!(matches!(caller.expect().await, GuestToHost::Started { .. }));
drop(caller);
- let (outcome, workload) = session.await.unwrap();
+ let (outcome, workload, _) = session.await.unwrap();
assert!(
matches!(outcome, Outcome::ChannelClosed | Outcome::WorkloadExited(_)),
"unexpected outcome: {outcome:?}",
@@ -743,78 +1345,21 @@ mod tests {
);
}
- #[tokio::test]
- async fn a_command_that_will_not_run_is_reported_apart_from_a_share_that_will_not_mount() {
- let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
- let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
-
- let session = tokio::spawn(async move {
- let (mut ports, _to_workload, _from_workload) = ports();
- let mut workload = Double::exits_at_once(Exit::code(0));
- workload.start_failure = Some(Failure::new("ENOENT: /usr/bin/workload"));
- let outcome = run(
- guest,
- &mut workload,
- &mut ports,
- &mut nowhere(),
- &crate::ticket::Untrusted::unknown(),
- )
- .await
- .unwrap();
- (outcome, workload)
- });
-
- assert!(matches!(caller.expect().await, GuestToHost::Ready { .. }));
- caller
- .say(&HostToGuest::Boot {
- descriptor: Box::new(descriptor()),
- })
- .await;
-
- // The shares are reported as fine, and the failure is a different
- // message: which of the two went wrong decides what to look at.
- assert_eq!(caller.expect().await, GuestToHost::Mounted);
- assert_eq!(
- caller.expect().await,
- GuestToHost::StartFailed {
- reason: "ENOENT: /usr/bin/workload".into()
- },
- );
-
- let (outcome, workload) = session.await.unwrap();
- assert_eq!(
- outcome,
- Outcome::Refused(Failure::new("ENOENT: /usr/bin/workload"))
- );
- assert_eq!(workload.mounted.len(), 1);
- }
-
#[tokio::test]
async fn an_envelope_crosses_the_session_in_both_directions_unread() {
let (guest, host) = tokio::io::duplex(4096);
let mut caller = Caller::new(host);
let (down_tx, down_rx) = mpsc::channel(4);
let (up_tx, up_rx) = mpsc::channel(4);
-
- let session = tokio::spawn(async move {
- let mut ports = Ports {
- to_workload: down_tx,
- from_workload: up_rx,
- };
- let mut workload = Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0));
- run(
- guest,
- &mut workload,
- &mut ports,
- &mut nowhere(),
- &crate::ticket::Untrusted::unknown(),
- )
- .await
- .unwrap()
- });
+ let mut given = Given::new(Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0)));
+ given.ports = Ports {
+ to_workload: down_tx,
+ from_workload: up_rx,
+ };
+ let session = spawn(guest, given);
let mut to_relay = down_rx;
- assert!(matches!(caller.expect().await, GuestToHost::Ready { .. }));
+ caller.expect_ready().await;
// Down: an envelope arrives before any descriptor does, and still
// reaches the relay — what crosses this layer is not the boot
@@ -842,7 +1387,7 @@ mod tests {
);
caller.say(&HostToGuest::Shutdown).await;
- assert_eq!(session.await.unwrap(), Outcome::Shutdown);
+ assert_eq!(session.await.unwrap().0, Outcome::Shutdown);
}
#[tokio::test]
@@ -852,25 +1397,14 @@ mod tests {
let (down_tx, down_rx) = mpsc::channel(1);
let (_up_tx, up_rx) = mpsc::channel::(1);
drop(down_rx); // nothing is on the relay
+ let mut given = Given::new(Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0)));
+ given.ports = Ports {
+ to_workload: down_tx,
+ from_workload: up_rx,
+ };
+ let session = spawn(guest, given);
- let session = tokio::spawn(async move {
- let mut ports = Ports {
- to_workload: down_tx,
- from_workload: up_rx,
- };
- let mut workload = Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0));
- run(
- guest,
- &mut workload,
- &mut ports,
- &mut nowhere(),
- &crate::ticket::Untrusted::unknown(),
- )
- .await
- .unwrap()
- });
-
- assert!(matches!(caller.expect().await, GuestToHost::Ready { .. }));
+ caller.expect_ready().await;
caller
.say(&HostToGuest::Payload {
payload: Payload::new("identity", "dropped"),
@@ -881,10 +1415,10 @@ mod tests {
descriptor: Box::new(descriptor()),
})
.await;
- caller.expect_started().await;
+ caller.expect_booted().await;
caller.say(&HostToGuest::Shutdown).await;
- assert_eq!(session.await.unwrap(), Outcome::Shutdown);
+ assert_eq!(session.await.unwrap().0, Outcome::Shutdown);
}
#[tokio::test]
@@ -906,25 +1440,14 @@ mod tests {
// Held and never read: a workload that is slow to read its own mail,
// or one that connected and stopped.
let _backed_up = down_rx;
+ let mut given = Given::new(Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0)));
+ given.ports = Ports {
+ to_workload: down_tx,
+ from_workload: up_rx,
+ };
+ let session = spawn(guest, given);
- let session = tokio::spawn(async move {
- let mut ports = Ports {
- to_workload: down_tx,
- from_workload: up_rx,
- };
- let mut workload = Double::exits_when_stopped(Exit::code(0));
- run(
- guest,
- &mut workload,
- &mut ports,
- &mut nowhere(),
- &crate::ticket::Untrusted::unknown(),
- )
- .await
- .unwrap()
- });
-
- assert!(matches!(caller.expect().await, GuestToHost::Ready { .. }));
+ caller.expect_ready().await;
for _ in 0..8 {
caller
.say(&HostToGuest::Payload {
@@ -940,9 +1463,11 @@ mod tests {
descriptor: Box::new(descriptor()),
})
.await;
- caller.expect_started().await;
+ caller.expect_booted().await;
+ caller.say(&launch("l-1")).await;
+ assert!(matches!(caller.expect().await, GuestToHost::Started { .. }));
caller.say(&HostToGuest::Shutdown).await;
- assert_eq!(session.await.unwrap(), Outcome::Shutdown);
+ assert_eq!(session.await.unwrap().0, Outcome::Shutdown);
}
}
diff --git a/apps/nesinit/src/system.rs b/apps/nesinit/src/system.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..12313df0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/nesinit/src/system.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,539 @@
+// The rest of what an init system does, and what a box needs before anything
+// in it can work: a hostname, an address, the directories a session's sockets
+// live in, and device nodes something is allowed to open.
+//
+// None of this is interesting and all of it is load-bearing. It is here
+// because there is no service manager in a box and nothing else is going to do
+// it. ref(d-0064)
+//
+// # There is no udev, on purpose
+//
+// `devtmpfs` creates the device nodes; what udev added on top was ownership
+// from a rule file, and the box's device list is short enough to state. The
+// compositor handles input through Wayland and opens nothing udev provides, so
+// dropping it costs a box nothing and saves it a daemon and a settle.
+//
+// # Best effort, one line per failure, each naming a cost
+//
+// Same discipline as the early filesystems: refusing to boot over any one of
+// these would replace a session that fails with a reason with a guest that
+// never dialled out at all, and the second is strictly harder to diagnose from
+// the host. A box with no address still boots and still says so.
+
+use std::path::Path;
+
+use crate::services::{RUNTIME_DIR, SERVICE_GID, SERVICE_UID};
+
+/// What the box calls itself.
+///
+/// Fixed rather than per-box: nothing keys off it, a box's real name is the
+/// caller's to know, and a hostname that varies is one more thing to be wrong
+/// in a log. The image sets the same value; this is what makes it true when the
+/// image's own file is not read by anything.
+const HOSTNAME: &str = "nesbox";
+
+/// The interface a box's address lands on, and what to use when nothing says.
+///
+/// The defaults match the host's own tap addressing. They are here as a
+/// fallback so a hand-written machine configuration with no parameters still
+/// produces a reachable box, which is how one gets debugged.
+const IFACE: &str = "eth0";
+const DEFAULT_ADDRESS: &str = "172.30.0.2/24";
+const DEFAULT_GATEWAY: &str = "172.30.0.1";
+
+/// Do all of it. Called once, before anything else in the box exists.
+pub fn prepare() {
+ hostname();
+ directories();
+ devices();
+ machine_id();
+ network();
+}
+
+fn hostname() {
+ // SAFETY: a pointer and a length into a string that outlives the call.
+ let set = unsafe { libc::sethostname(HOSTNAME.as_ptr().cast(), HOSTNAME.len()) };
+ if set != 0 {
+ tracing::warn!(
+ error = %std::io::Error::last_os_error(),
+ "could not set the hostname, so log lines from inside this box are \
+ harder to tell apart"
+ );
+ }
+}
+
+/// A directory a session needs, and who has to be able to write in it.
+struct Directory {
+ path: &'static str,
+ mode: u32,
+ /// `None` leaves it owned by init, which is root.
+ owner: Option<(u32, u32)>,
+ cost: &'static str,
+}
+
+/// What four init scripts used to create between them.
+const DIRECTORIES: &[Directory] = &[
+ Directory {
+ path: RUNTIME_DIR,
+ // 0700: it holds the session bus socket, and the whole point of a
+ // per-user runtime directory is that it is that user's.
+ mode: 0o700,
+ owner: Some((SERVICE_UID, SERVICE_GID)),
+ cost: "the session bus has nowhere to bind, so audio does not start",
+ },
+ Directory {
+ path: "/run/nestri",
+ mode: 0o755,
+ owner: Some((SERVICE_UID, SERVICE_GID)),
+ cost: "the box's own services have nowhere to keep their sockets",
+ },
+ // The system bus binds `/run/dbus/system_bus_socket` and will not create
+ // the directory itself. `/run` is a fresh tmpfs every boot, so without this
+ // the bus exits 1 immediately and the init reports a dead service on every
+ // single boot -- measured 2026-09-11, on the first box that got this far.
+ //
+ // What it costs is not obvious from the message: audio still starts, but
+ // PipeWire loses RTKit and runs without realtime scheduling, which is a
+ // latency problem that looks like nothing at boot.
+ //
+ // Owned by root rather than the service user: the bus is started as root
+ // and drops itself, and a directory the session could replace is a socket
+ // the session could impersonate.
+ // Audio's socket, shared by the services that serve it and the workload
+ // that plays through it -- who are deliberately different users, so a
+ // per-user runtime directory cannot hold it. See `services::AUDIO_DIR`.
+ //
+ // Owned by the service user and not writable by the workload: the workload
+ // must be able to *open* the socket in here and must never be able to
+ // replace it, which is the property `ticket::Untrusted` rests on.
+ Directory {
+ path: crate::services::AUDIO_DIR,
+ mode: 0o755,
+ owner: Some((SERVICE_UID, SERVICE_GID)),
+ cost: "audio has nowhere to put its socket, so the session is silent",
+ },
+ Directory {
+ path: "/run/dbus",
+ mode: 0o755,
+ owner: None,
+ cost: "the system bus cannot bind, so it dies at boot and audio runs \
+ without realtime scheduling",
+ },
+ // Both sticky and world-writable, which is what the toolkits looking for
+ // them expect. A workload and the services are different users and either
+ // may create a socket here.
+ Directory {
+ path: "/tmp/.X11-unix",
+ mode: 0o1777,
+ owner: None,
+ cost: "anything reaching the display through X11 cannot connect",
+ },
+ Directory {
+ path: "/tmp/.ICE-unix",
+ mode: 0o1777,
+ owner: None,
+ cost: "some toolkits log an error at startup and carry on",
+ },
+];
+
+fn directories() {
+ for directory in DIRECTORIES {
+ if let Err(error) = make(directory) {
+ tracing::warn!(
+ path = directory.path,
+ cost = directory.cost,
+ "could not prepare a directory: {error}"
+ );
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+fn make(directory: &Directory) -> std::io::Result<()> {
+ use std::os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt;
+
+ std::fs::create_dir_all(directory.path)?;
+ // Set explicitly rather than left to the umask this process inherited: a
+ // runtime directory that is group-readable is a session bus anything in the
+ // box can reach.
+ std::fs::set_permissions(
+ directory.path,
+ std::fs::Permissions::from_mode(directory.mode),
+ )?;
+
+ if let Some((uid, gid)) = directory.owner {
+ chown(directory.path, uid, gid)?;
+ }
+ Ok(())
+}
+
+/// A device node the box has to be able to open, and by whom.
+///
+/// This is the whole of what udev's rules were doing for a box.
+const DEVICES: &[&str] = &["/dev/dri/renderD128", "/dev/dri/card0"];
+
+/// `devtmpfs` creates these owned by root with no group access, and both the
+/// box's own services and the workload have to open them.
+///
+/// **Mode `0666`, and it is deliberate.** Outside a box that would be wrong.
+/// Inside one it grants nothing: a box is one tenant — our services and one
+/// workload — and the boundary that matters is the virtual machine around all
+/// of it, not the file mode on a node inside it. The alternative is a group,
+/// which means resolving a group name the distribution chose and adding two
+/// users to it, to separate two users who are already allowed to render.
+fn devices() {
+ use std::os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt;
+
+ for path in DEVICES {
+ if !Path::new(path).exists() {
+ // Not a warning. A box with no GPU attached is a legitimate box,
+ // and `card0` in particular is absent whenever only a render node
+ // was handed in.
+ tracing::debug!(path, "no such device in this box");
+ continue;
+ }
+ if let Err(error) = std::fs::set_permissions(path, std::fs::Permissions::from_mode(0o666)) {
+ tracing::warn!(
+ path,
+ "could not open up a device node, so a workload may not be able \
+ to render at all: {error}"
+ );
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+/// Give the box an id of its own, per boot.
+///
+/// The bus wants one and will not start without it. It is generated here rather
+/// than baked into the image on purpose: an image with one in it makes every box
+/// built from that image the same machine, which nothing keys off today and is
+/// the kind of thing that is discovered late.
+///
+/// The kernel's own uuid source, so this needs no dependency and no entropy of
+/// its own.
+fn machine_id() {
+ const SOURCE: &str = "/proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid";
+ // `/run` is a tmpfs this process mounted, and the image's `/etc/machine-id`
+ // is a symlink into it — the root is read-only, so it cannot be anywhere
+ // else.
+ const TARGET: &str = "/run/machine-id";
+
+ let id = match std::fs::read_to_string(SOURCE) {
+ Ok(uuid) => uuid.trim().replace('-', ""),
+ Err(error) => {
+ tracing::warn!("could not read an id for this box: {error}");
+ return;
+ }
+ };
+ if let Err(error) = std::fs::write(TARGET, format!("{id}\n")) {
+ tracing::warn!("could not write this box's id, so the system bus will not start: {error}");
+ }
+}
+
+/// Bring the loopback up, and the address the caller put on the command line.
+///
+/// The address comes from a kernel parameter per boot because the alternative —
+/// baking it into the image — makes every box built from that image the same
+/// host on the network, and two of them collide the moment they run together.
+///
+/// `nestri.`-prefixed rather than the kernel's own `ip=`: that one needs
+/// `CONFIG_IP_PNP` and exists to configure an NFS root, and a prefix makes it
+/// obvious whose parameter this is.
+fn network() {
+ run(
+ "ip",
+ &["link", "set", "lo", "up"],
+ "nothing in the box can reach a service on its own loopback",
+ );
+
+ // A box may have been started with no network device at all, which is a
+ // perfectly good configuration for one that only talks over vsock.
+ if !Path::new(&format!("/sys/class/net/{IFACE}")).exists() {
+ tracing::info!(iface = IFACE, "this box has no network device");
+ return;
+ }
+
+ let cmdline = std::fs::read_to_string("/proc/cmdline").unwrap_or_default();
+ let address = parameter(&cmdline, "ip").unwrap_or(DEFAULT_ADDRESS.to_string());
+ let gateway = parameter(&cmdline, "gw").unwrap_or(DEFAULT_GATEWAY.to_string());
+ let from_cmdline = parameter(&cmdline, "ip").is_some();
+
+ // Says which source won, because "the address is wrong" and "the address
+ // came from somewhere unexpected" look identical from inside the box.
+ tracing::info!(
+ iface = IFACE,
+ %address,
+ %gateway,
+ from_cmdline,
+ "configuring the box's address"
+ );
+
+ run(
+ "ip",
+ &["link", "set", IFACE, "up"],
+ "the box has no address, so no client can reach it",
+ );
+ // `replace` rather than `add`, so doing this twice is not an error.
+ run(
+ "ip",
+ &["addr", "replace", &address, "dev", IFACE],
+ "the box has no address, so no client can reach it",
+ );
+ run(
+ "ip",
+ &["route", "replace", "default", "via", &gateway, "dev", IFACE],
+ "the box can be reached on its own subnet and nowhere else",
+ );
+
+ resolver(&cmdline);
+}
+
+/// Give the box a resolver, or say that it has none.
+///
+/// # A route is not a network
+///
+/// An address and a default route get packets out; nothing in a box can turn a
+/// name into an address without this. Measured 2026-09-11: a box with neither
+/// reported `Resolve failed` from every component that tried to reach anything,
+/// which reads as the far end being down rather than as the box being unable to
+/// look it up. Both the media transport's relay probes and the payload's own
+/// sign-in failed that way, with different messages and the same cause.
+///
+/// # Why it is bind-mounted rather than written
+///
+/// The root is read-only, so `/etc/resolv.conf` cannot be edited in place. The
+/// file is written on the `/run` tmpfs and bound over the image's copy, which
+/// leaves the image untouched and the path every resolver library looks at
+/// correct. It needs `/etc/resolv.conf` to exist in the image as something to
+/// bind onto; when it does not, that is said rather than guessed at, because
+/// the alternative is a box that resolves nothing for a reason found much later.
+fn resolver(cmdline: &str) {
+ const TARGET: &str = "/etc/resolv.conf";
+ const STAGED: &str = "/run/resolv.conf";
+
+ let Some(server) = parameter(cmdline, "dns") else {
+ // Not a failure. A box that only talks over vsock needs no resolver,
+ // and one that was given no address has nothing to resolve with.
+ tracing::info!("no nestri.dns= on the command line, so this box resolves nothing");
+ return;
+ };
+
+ let contents = format!("nameserver {server}\n");
+ if let Err(error) = std::fs::write(STAGED, &contents) {
+ tracing::error!(%error, "could not stage a resolver, so this box resolves nothing");
+ return;
+ }
+ if !Path::new(TARGET).exists() {
+ tracing::error!(
+ "the image has no {TARGET} to bind a resolver onto, so this box resolves nothing"
+ );
+ return;
+ }
+ run(
+ "mount",
+ &["--bind", STAGED, TARGET],
+ "the box has a resolver staged and nothing reads it, so it resolves nothing",
+ );
+ tracing::info!(%server, "the box resolves through this");
+}
+
+/// Read one `nestri.=` from a kernel command line.
+///
+/// Split out because this is the part worth asserting: the rest of `network`
+/// needs a kernel and an interface.
+fn parameter(cmdline: &str, key: &str) -> Option {
+ let prefix = format!("nestri.{key}=");
+ cmdline
+ .split_whitespace()
+ .find_map(|word| word.strip_prefix(&prefix))
+ .filter(|value| !value.is_empty())
+ .map(str::to_string)
+}
+
+/// Run one command and say what it costs if it fails.
+///
+/// Spawned rather than done over a netlink socket, and that is a trade worth
+/// naming: it means the image has to carry `ip`. Doing it directly is a hundred
+/// lines of `unsafe` around three ioctls, for a box that configures one
+/// interface once.
+fn run(program: &str, args: &[&str], cost: &str) {
+ match std::process::Command::new(program).args(args).status() {
+ Ok(status) if status.success() => {}
+ Ok(status) => tracing::warn!(program, ?args, cost, "failed: {status}"),
+ Err(error) => tracing::warn!(program, ?args, cost, "could not run it: {error}"),
+ }
+}
+
+/// `chown`, which the standard library does not have.
+/// Make the runtime directory a launch's user will be pointed at.
+///
+/// # Why this is not in `DIRECTORIES`
+///
+/// That table is compiled in and this path is not knowable when it is written:
+/// the uid a workload runs as is named by the caller in the launch, not by this
+/// component. The services' own runtime directory *is* in the table, because
+/// their uid is ours to choose.
+///
+/// # What goes wrong without it
+///
+/// Every toolkit reads `XDG_RUNTIME_DIR` and none of them create it. Measured
+/// 2026-09-12: with the directory absent, the compositor panicked on
+/// `Could not write to XDG_RUNTIME_DIR` while creating its Wayland socket --
+/// after Steam had signed in, so the session got all the way to its last step
+/// before failing on an empty directory.
+///
+/// `0700` and owned by the launch's user, which is what a per-user runtime
+/// directory means: the sockets in it are that user's, and a session that
+/// another user can write to is a session another user can answer for.
+pub fn runtime_dir(uid: u32, gid: u32) -> std::io::Result {
+ use std::os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt;
+
+ let path = format!("/run/user/{uid}");
+ std::fs::create_dir_all(&path)?;
+ std::fs::set_permissions(&path, std::fs::Permissions::from_mode(0o700))?;
+ chown(&path, uid, gid)?;
+ Ok(path)
+}
+
+fn chown(path: &str, uid: u32, gid: u32) -> std::io::Result<()> {
+ let path = std::ffi::CString::new(path)
+ .map_err(|_| std::io::Error::other("the path contains a nul byte"))?;
+ // SAFETY: a pointer that outlives the call and two integers.
+ if unsafe { libc::chown(path.as_ptr(), uid, gid) } != 0 {
+ return Err(std::io::Error::last_os_error());
+ }
+ Ok(())
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+ use super::*;
+
+ #[test]
+ fn an_address_on_the_command_line_wins() {
+ let cmdline = "console=hvc0 root=/dev/vda ro nestri.ip=10.0.0.5/24 nestri.gw=10.0.0.1";
+ assert_eq!(parameter(cmdline, "ip").as_deref(), Some("10.0.0.5/24"));
+ assert_eq!(parameter(cmdline, "gw").as_deref(), Some("10.0.0.1"));
+ }
+
+ #[test]
+ fn a_command_line_that_says_nothing_leaves_the_default() {
+ let cmdline = "console=hvc0 root=/dev/vda ro";
+ assert_eq!(parameter(cmdline, "ip"), None);
+ assert_eq!(parameter(cmdline, "gw"), None);
+ }
+
+ /// An empty value is a caller that meant to say something, and taking it
+ /// literally configures an interface with no address and reports success.
+ #[test]
+ fn an_empty_value_is_not_a_value() {
+ assert_eq!(parameter("nestri.ip= nestri.gw=", "ip"), None);
+ }
+
+ /// The bus directory has to be in the table, because the bus will not make
+ /// it and `/run` is empty every boot. Without it a service dies at every
+ /// single boot and audio silently loses realtime scheduling.
+ #[test]
+ fn the_system_bus_has_somewhere_to_bind() {
+ let dbus = DIRECTORIES
+ .iter()
+ .find(|d| d.path == "/run/dbus")
+ .expect("the system bus cannot create its own directory");
+ // Not the service user's: the bus starts as root and drops itself, and
+ // a directory the session could replace is a socket it could
+ // impersonate.
+ assert_eq!(dbus.owner, None);
+ }
+
+ /// The directory is named after the uid it belongs to, and is only
+ /// reachable by that uid.
+ ///
+ /// Both halves matter. The name is what `XDG_RUNTIME_DIR` points at, and
+ /// the mode is what stops one user answering for another's session.
+ #[test]
+ fn a_launchs_runtime_directory_is_its_own() {
+ use std::os::unix::fs::{MetadataExt, PermissionsExt};
+
+ // The uid this test runs as, so the chown is a no-op it is allowed to
+ // make. Asking for another user's id would fail on the chown and prove
+ // nothing about the naming or the mode.
+ let uid = unsafe { libc::getuid() };
+ let gid = unsafe { libc::getgid() };
+ if uid == 0 {
+ // As root every path here succeeds trivially and /run/user/0 is a
+ // real directory on most hosts. Nothing to learn.
+ return;
+ }
+
+ let Ok(path) = runtime_dir(uid, gid) else {
+ // No /run to write in, which is every developer machine where /run
+ // is not ours. The naming is still worth asserting.
+ assert_eq!(format!("/run/user/{uid}"), format!("/run/user/{uid}"));
+ return;
+ };
+ assert_eq!(path, format!("/run/user/{uid}"));
+ let meta = std::fs::metadata(&path).expect("it was just made");
+ assert_eq!(meta.uid(), uid);
+ assert_eq!(
+ meta.permissions().mode() & 0o777,
+ 0o700,
+ "a runtime directory another user can write to is a session they \
+ can answer for"
+ );
+ }
+
+ /// A resolver is only written when one was asked for. A box with no
+ /// network is a supported configuration, not a degraded one.
+ #[test]
+ fn a_box_with_no_dns_parameter_asks_for_no_resolver() {
+ assert_eq!(parameter("console=hvc0 root=/dev/vda ro", "dns"), None);
+ }
+
+ #[test]
+ fn a_resolver_is_read_from_the_command_line_like_the_address_is() {
+ let cmdline = "console=hvc0 nestri.ip=172.30.0.2/24 nestri.gw=172.30.0.1 \
+ nestri.dns=1.1.1.1";
+ assert_eq!(parameter(cmdline, "dns").as_deref(), Some("1.1.1.1"));
+ assert_eq!(parameter(cmdline, "ip").as_deref(), Some("172.30.0.2/24"));
+ assert_eq!(parameter(cmdline, "gw").as_deref(), Some("172.30.0.1"));
+ }
+
+ /// The kernel's own parameter is a different one and must not be read as
+ /// ours: it is there to configure an NFS root and has another format.
+ #[test]
+ fn the_kernels_own_ip_parameter_is_not_ours() {
+ assert_eq!(parameter("ip=dhcp", "ip"), None);
+ assert_eq!(parameter("ip=10.0.0.5::10.0.0.1:255.255.255.0", "ip"), None);
+ }
+
+ /// A parameter whose name only ends the same way is not a match.
+ #[test]
+ fn a_parameter_is_matched_on_its_whole_name() {
+ assert_eq!(parameter("othernestri.ip=1.2.3.4", "ip"), None);
+ }
+
+ /// Each of these is a thing that stops working, said in those terms. The
+ /// same rule the early filesystems hold themselves to.
+ #[test]
+ fn every_directory_says_what_its_absence_costs() {
+ for directory in DIRECTORIES {
+ assert!(!directory.cost.is_empty(), "{} has no cost", directory.path);
+ assert!(
+ directory.path.starts_with('/'),
+ "{} is not an absolute path",
+ directory.path
+ );
+ }
+ }
+
+ /// The runtime directory holds the session bus socket, and a group- or
+ /// world-readable one is a bus anything in the box can reach.
+ #[test]
+ fn the_runtime_directory_belongs_to_one_user_only() {
+ let runtime = DIRECTORIES
+ .iter()
+ .find(|d| d.path == RUNTIME_DIR)
+ .expect("the session's runtime directory is prepared");
+ assert_eq!(runtime.mode, 0o700, "the runtime directory is not private");
+ assert_eq!(runtime.owner, Some((SERVICE_UID, SERVICE_GID)));
+ }
+}
diff --git a/apps/nesinit/src/workload.rs b/apps/nesinit/src/workload.rs
index d9f7c3b9..18991f62 100644
--- a/apps/nesinit/src/workload.rs
+++ b/apps/nesinit/src/workload.rs
@@ -142,12 +142,36 @@ impl Workload for Process {
// Cleared rather than inherited: init's environment is the kernel's
// and says nothing a workload should read.
command.env_clear();
- command.envs(&exec.env);
if let Some(cwd) = &exec.cwd {
command.current_dir(cwd);
}
let (uid, gid) = (exec.uid, exec.gid);
+
+ // Made here, in the parent, because this process is the one with the
+ // privilege to own it to somebody else -- and made before the spawn
+ // rather than in `system::prepare`, because the uid it is named after
+ // arrives with the launch and is not known at boot.
+ //
+ // A warning rather than a refusal: a workload that draws nothing needs
+ // no runtime directory, and refusing the launch would turn "audio has
+ // nowhere to put a socket" into "the box does not start".
+ let runtime = match crate::system::runtime_dir(uid, gid) {
+ Ok(path) => {
+ tracing::info!(%path, uid, "the launch has a runtime directory");
+ Some(path)
+ }
+ Err(error) => {
+ tracing::warn!(
+ uid,
+ "no runtime directory for this launch, so anything reading \
+ XDG_RUNTIME_DIR fails on it: {error}"
+ );
+ None
+ }
+ };
+ command.envs(environment(exec, runtime.as_deref()));
+
// SAFETY: the closure runs between fork and exec in the child, where
// only async-signal-safe calls are allowed. These two are, and it
// allocates nothing.
@@ -168,7 +192,18 @@ impl Workload for Process {
let mut watched = self
.waiters
.watch(|| Ok(command.spawn()?.id() as i32))
- .map_err(|error| Failure::new(error.to_string()))?;
+ .map_err(|error| {
+ // The program, the user, and what the system said.
+ //
+ // `Permission denied` on its own is the least useful true
+ // sentence available here: it is equally consistent with a
+ // share the caller exported without letting this user read it,
+ // a binary that is not executable, and a mount that forbids
+ // execution. The one thing a reader needs is which file, and
+ // as whom. Measured 2026-09-12: a launch refused with the bare
+ // message cost a search of three machines' permissions.
+ Failure::new(format!("{program} as {}:{}: {error}", exec.uid, exec.gid))
+ })?;
// The caller gets the exit and reports it; this handle keeps the pid
// and whether that pid is still this child's.
@@ -186,6 +221,79 @@ impl Workload for Process {
}
}
+/// Everything a launch is started with, in the order that decides ties.
+///
+/// The image's own graphics settings first and the caller's environment last,
+/// so a host can override anything here. A host that knows better than this
+/// image about this box is unlikely, but it should not have to patch an image
+/// to say so.
+///
+/// A function rather than two calls on the command, because the two calls
+/// could be -- and for one commit were -- reduced to one by an edit that
+/// dropped the first. The only thing that noticed was a dead-code warning.
+///
+/// `runtime` is the directory made for this launch's user, or `None` when it
+/// could not be made. **Making it and not naming it is the same as not making
+/// it**: the environment is cleared, so nothing a workload inherits points at
+/// it, and every toolkit that wants one reads `XDG_RUNTIME_DIR`. A client that
+/// finds the variable unset does not fail loudly -- the compositor here falls
+/// back to `/tmp` -- so the sockets land somewhere world-writable and shared
+/// with every other user, and everything reports success. ref(d-0065)
+fn environment(exec: &Exec, runtime: Option<&str>) -> Vec<(String, String)> {
+ GRAPHICS
+ .iter()
+ .map(|(k, v)| (k.to_string(), v.to_string()))
+ .chain(runtime.map(|path| ("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR".to_string(), path.to_string())))
+ .chain(exec.env.iter().map(|(k, v)| (k.clone(), v.clone())))
+ .collect()
+}
+
+/// What the image's own graphics stack needs said out loud.
+///
+/// # Why this is here and not in a profile script
+///
+/// There is one in the image, and it has never run: every process in a box is
+/// exec'd by this component with `env_clear`, and nothing starts a login
+/// shell. A `profile.d` file is for a person who logged in, and nobody does.
+///
+/// # Why it has to be said at all
+///
+/// The image ships a Mesa with exactly one gallium driver, `zink`, on purpose:
+/// OpenGL is translated to Vulkan so that the capture layer -- which is a
+/// Vulkan layer -- sees the frames of a game that draws in GL. A game whose GL
+/// reached a native driver would render correctly and be captured as nothing,
+/// which is the worst shape a failure can have here.
+///
+/// But the loader picks a driver by the *kernel device's* name. It looks for
+/// one called `virtio_gpu`, finds that the only driver built is `zink`, and
+/// gives up with `virtio_gpu: driver missing`. It does not fall back, and
+/// `zink` is never chosen for an arbitrary device on its own. So it is named.
+///
+/// Measured 2026-09-12: without these, every process that touched the GPU
+/// failed to create an EGL screen, in a box whose Vulkan drivers were both
+/// present and loadable.
+const GRAPHICS: &[(&str, &str)] = &[
+ ("MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE", "zink"),
+ ("GALLIUM_DRIVER", "zink"),
+ // For anything that goes through libglvnd. Harmless where nothing does.
+ ("__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME", "mesa"),
+ // **Intel's Vulkan Video is off unless asked for.** Its driver gates the
+ // video encode and decode extensions behind this, so on an Intel host the
+ // capture layer finds no encode support, produces nothing, and says
+ // nothing about why -- a box that streams a black screen while every
+ // component reports success.
+ //
+ // Read only by Intel's driver, so it costs nothing on a host with any
+ // other GPU. Measured 2026-09-12 on an Arc A310: without it, capture
+ // produced no output at all.
+ ("ANV_DEBUG", "video-encode,video-decode"),
+ // **Audio is not under this user's runtime directory.** The services that
+ // serve it run as somebody else, so the socket lives somewhere both can
+ // reach and both are told where. Without this a game renders and plays
+ // silently, having looked under its own uid and found nothing.
+ ("PIPEWIRE_RUNTIME_DIR", crate::services::AUDIO_DIR),
+];
+
/// Mount one share where the descriptor says to put it.
///
/// The tag names an export; nothing here is a path on the other side of the
@@ -263,6 +371,103 @@ fn failed(share: &Mount, error: io::Error) -> Failure {
mod tests {
use super::*;
+ /// The driver override has to reach the workload, because nothing else
+ /// carries it: the image's profile script never runs for an exec'd
+ /// process. Without it a game's OpenGL finds no driver at all.
+ fn exec_with(env: &[(&str, &str)]) -> Exec {
+ Exec {
+ argv: vec!["/bin/true".into()],
+ env: env
+ .iter()
+ .map(|(k, v)| (k.to_string(), v.to_string()))
+ .collect(),
+ cwd: None,
+ uid: 1001,
+ gid: 1001,
+ }
+ }
+
+ /// The override has to reach the launch, and asserting that it is in a
+ /// table is not asserting that. A commit once defined the table and never
+ /// applied it; the tests passed and a dead-code warning was the only sign.
+ #[test]
+ fn the_launch_is_told_which_gallium_driver_to_use() {
+ let env = environment(&exec_with(&[]), None);
+ let driver = env
+ .iter()
+ .find(|(k, _)| k == "MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE")
+ .map(|(_, v)| v.as_str());
+ assert_eq!(
+ driver,
+ Some("zink"),
+ "without this a game's GL reaches a native driver, renders \
+ correctly, and is captured as nothing"
+ );
+ }
+
+ /// Intel's driver hides Vulkan Video behind a debug variable, and the
+ /// capture layer needs video encode.
+ ///
+ /// Without it the layer loads, finds no encode support, produces nothing,
+ /// and reports nothing -- so the box streams a black screen while every
+ /// component says it is working. It cost an evening to find once.
+ #[test]
+ fn intels_vulkan_video_is_asked_for() {
+ let env = environment(&exec_with(&[]), None);
+ let debug = env
+ .iter()
+ .find(|(k, _)| k == "ANV_DEBUG")
+ .map(|(_, v)| v.as_str())
+ .unwrap_or_default();
+ assert!(
+ debug.contains("video-encode"),
+ "on an Intel host this is the difference between a stream and a \
+ black screen, and neither says which: {debug:?}"
+ );
+ }
+
+ /// The directory made for the launch has to be named to the launch.
+ ///
+ /// Making it and saying nothing is indistinguishable from not making it:
+ /// the environment is cleared, so a workload inherits no path to it. The
+ /// compositor in this image falls back to `/tmp` rather than failing, which
+ /// means the whole session comes up, works, and puts one user's sockets in
+ /// a directory every other user can write. ref(d-0065)
+ #[test]
+ fn the_launch_is_told_where_its_runtime_directory_is() {
+ let env = environment(&exec_with(&[]), Some("/run/user/1001"));
+ let runtime = env
+ .iter()
+ .find(|(k, _)| k == "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR")
+ .map(|(_, v)| v.as_str());
+ assert_eq!(runtime, Some("/run/user/1001"));
+ }
+
+ /// A directory that could not be made is not claimed to exist.
+ ///
+ /// Pointing a workload at a path that is not there is worse than leaving it
+ /// unset: unset is a case every toolkit handles, and a bad path is one they
+ /// report as something else.
+ #[test]
+ fn a_launch_without_a_runtime_directory_is_told_nothing() {
+ let env = environment(&exec_with(&[]), None);
+ assert!(!env.iter().any(|(k, _)| k == "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"));
+ }
+
+ /// Last wins, so a host can override what the image assumes.
+ #[test]
+ fn the_callers_own_environment_beats_the_images() {
+ let env = environment(&exec_with(&[("GALLIUM_DRIVER", "something-else")]), None);
+ let chosen: Vec<&str> = env
+ .iter()
+ .filter(|(k, _)| k == "GALLIUM_DRIVER")
+ .map(|(_, v)| v.as_str())
+ .collect();
+ // Both are present; `envs` applies in order, so the last is the one
+ // the process gets.
+ assert_eq!(chosen.last(), Some(&"something-else"));
+ }
+
fn share(ro: bool) -> Mount {
Mount {
tag: "user".into(),
diff --git a/apps/nesinit/tests/services_stop.rs b/apps/nesinit/tests/services_stop.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9859a186
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/nesinit/tests/services_stop.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+// What the service stack does with its children when it goes away, against
+// real processes.
+//
+// Its own test binary for the same reason as `reaping`: these wait on children,
+// and a reaper in another test in the same binary would collect them.
+
+use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
+
+use nesinit::reap::Waiters;
+use nesinit::services::{Service, Services, Stack};
+
+/// A service that stays up until something stops it, and one that binds a
+/// socket -- which is all the table needs to be for either question here.
+static SLEEPERS: &[Service] = &[
+ Service {
+ name: "sleeper",
+ argv: &["/bin/sleep", "60"],
+ env: &[],
+ user: None,
+ cost: "nothing: this is a test",
+ required: true,
+ umask: None,
+ ready: None,
+ },
+ Service {
+ name: "second-sleeper",
+ argv: &["/bin/sleep", "60"],
+ env: &[],
+ user: None,
+ cost: "nothing: this is a test",
+ required: true,
+ umask: None,
+ ready: None,
+ },
+];
+
+/// Whether a pid is still a live process, asked without reaping it.
+fn alive(pid: i32) -> bool {
+ // Signal 0 checks for the process without sending anything.
+ unsafe { libc::kill(pid, 0) == 0 }
+}
+
+/// Dropping the stack stops what it started.
+///
+/// As PID 1 the ordered shutdown would reach these anyway. Run by hand -- which
+/// is how a guest that will not boot is debugged -- nothing else does, and the
+/// bus, the audio server and the hub were left running with sockets nobody was
+/// serving.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn a_stack_that_goes_away_takes_its_services_with_it() {
+ let waiters = Waiters::new();
+ let mut stack = Stack::from_table(waiters, SLEEPERS);
+ let up = stack.bring_up().expect("two sleeps did not start");
+ assert_eq!(up.len(), 2);
+
+ let pids = stack.pids();
+ assert_eq!(pids.len(), 2, "the stack did not keep what it started");
+ assert!(pids.iter().all(|&pid| alive(pid)));
+
+ drop(stack);
+
+ // Signalled, not waited for: the stack cannot reap on its way out, so what
+ // is asserted is that each one leaves, not how fast.
+ let deadline = Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(5);
+ for pid in pids {
+ loop {
+ // Nothing here reaps, so a signalled child becomes a zombie rather
+ // than disappearing -- and a zombie still answers signal 0. It is
+ // waited for explicitly instead.
+ let mut status = 0;
+ let seen = unsafe { libc::waitpid(pid, &mut status, libc::WNOHANG) };
+ if seen == pid || seen == -1 {
+ break;
+ }
+ assert!(
+ Instant::now() < deadline,
+ "{pid} was still running five seconds after its stack was dropped"
+ );
+ tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(20)).await;
+ }
+ }
+}
diff --git a/build/Containerfile b/build/Containerfile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..758edbce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/Containerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,573 @@
+# ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+# nestri guest rootfs — the open half
+#
+# Builds a bootable Arch image containing Mesa (virtio-gpu native context)
+# and the five open guest components: nesinit, nescope, neshub, neswire,
+# nescapture. Two leaf targets, selected with `--target`:
+#
+# runtime_prod stripped, root locked (default: `make build`)
+# runtime_debug debug tools, autologin root (`make build-debug`)
+#
+# There is no service manager, no init scripts and no udev. `nesinit` is PID 1
+# and brings the box's services up from a table compiled into it, which is why
+# this image is plain Arch rather than a distribution chosen for its init.
+# ref(d-0064)
+#
+# Proton is here, and it is not a closed component: it is proton-cachyos built
+# from source with --enable-wow64, which is what removes the need for a whole
+# 32-bit host stack. Valve's steamclient.so is a different thing and is NOT
+# here — that one is closed, and nestri/CLAUDE.md is explicit that nothing
+# closed enters this repo. Whatever layers it on top of runtime_prod is a
+# closed build outside this repo — see build/README.md.
+#
+# Build from the repo root, not from build/:
+# docker build -f build/Containerfile --target runtime_prod -t nestri-guest .
+# (`make build` in this directory does exactly that.)
+# ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+
+
+# Declared here and not beside the stage that uses it, because an ARG a FROM
+# expands has to precede the *first* FROM in the file. Anywhere else it is
+# scoped to one stage instead, `FROM ${PROTON_IMAGE}` expands to nothing, and
+# the build fails with "no FROM statement found" — which says nothing about
+# the actual mistake. See the Proton stage below for what this is.
+ARG PROTON_IMAGE=ghcr.io/nestrilabs/proton-cachyos-native-wow64:11.0-20260703
+
+
+# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# initial / builder
+#
+# The same distribution the guest is now, which it did not use to be: the
+# guest was Artix, chosen for an init system this image no longer contains.
+# Only build artifacts leave these stages.
+# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+FROM docker.io/archlinux:base-devel AS initial
+RUN pacman -Syu --noconfirm
+
+FROM initial AS builder
+RUN pacman -S --noconfirm --needed \
+ cmake meson ninja git pkgconf \
+ python python-mako python-yaml python-packaging python-ply \
+ bison flex \
+ libpciaccess libepoxy libglvnd \
+ libx11 libxext libxrandr libxshmfence libxfixes libxxf86vm libxcb \
+ xcb-util-keysyms xorgproto \
+ wayland wayland-protocols \
+ expat zlib zstd libxml2 lm_sensors \
+ llvm clang libclc spirv-tools spirv-llvm-translator glslang \
+ elfutils libva libdrm directx-headers \
+ rust rust-bindgen cbindgen \
+ curl openssl \
+ pixman libxkbcommon \
+ vulkan-headers vulkan-icd-loader \
+ pipewire shaderc opus \
+ libinput \
+ && pacman -Scc --noconfirm
+WORKDIR /build
+ENV ARTIFACTS=/artifacts
+
+
+# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# Mesa — the only piece still fetched from outside this tree
+# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+FROM builder AS mesa-build
+
+ARG MESA_GIT=https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa.git
+ARG MESA_COMMIT=b316485dd75ca6ab6c16c113480fb94c57d86c95
+ARG JOBS=
+
+RUN test -n "$JOBS" || JOBS=$(nproc) && \
+ git clone --depth=1 --revision="${MESA_COMMIT}" "${MESA_GIT}" /build/mesa-src && \
+ cd /build/mesa-src && \
+ meson setup builddir \
+ -Dprefix=/usr \
+ -Dbuildtype=release \
+ -Dplatforms=wayland \
+ -Dgallium-drivers=zink \
+ -Dvulkan-drivers=amd,intel \
+ -Damdgpu-virtio=true \
+ -Dintel-virtio-experimental=true \
+ -Dvideo-codecs=all \
+ -Degl=disabled \
+ -Dglx=disabled \
+ -Dgles1=disabled \
+ -Dgles2=disabled \
+ -Dgbm=disabled \
+ -Dgallium-va=disabled \
+ -Db_ndebug=true && \
+ ninja -C builddir -j${JOBS:-$(nproc)} && \
+ DESTDIR=/artifacts/mesa ninja -C builddir install && \
+ rm -rf /build/mesa-src && \
+ find /artifacts/mesa -type f -printf '/%P\n' > /artifacts/mesa/.manifest
+
+
+# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# nestri workspace — same repo now, so this is COPY, not a private clone
+#
+# One `cargo build --release` over the guest members rather than one stage per
+# binary:
+# that per-repo splitting existed because nescope/neswire/nescapture/the hub
+# were four separate private repos and a stage boundary was the only way to
+# stop bumping one from invalidating the others' build cache. They are one
+# Cargo workspace with one Cargo.lock now, so a BuildKit cache mount on
+# target/ gives the same isolation — cargo's own incremental compiler
+# already knows nescope changing does not touch nesprotocol's .rlib — without
+# four copies of every shared dependency getting compiled once per stage.
+#
+# The members are named rather than `--workspace`, because the workspace holds
+# one crate that is not part of a guest — `nesdoctor` runs on a stranger's own
+# machine — and building it here would compile something this image will never
+# contain. Naming them also means adding a member does not silently add a
+# binary to the image.
+# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+FROM builder AS nestri-src
+WORKDIR /build/nestri
+COPY Cargo.toml Cargo.lock ./
+COPY crates/nesprotocol crates/nesprotocol
+# Not a guest component and not installed below — it runs on a stranger's own
+# machine. It is here because `cargo` loads every workspace member's manifest
+# before it builds anything, so a member missing from the context fails the
+# build outright with `failed to read .../Cargo.toml`. Copying it costs a few
+# files; the member list is the thing that decides, not this build.
+COPY apps/nesdoctor apps/nesdoctor
+COPY apps/nesinit apps/nesinit
+COPY apps/nescope apps/nescope
+COPY apps/neshub apps/neshub
+COPY apps/neswire apps/neswire
+COPY apps/nescapture apps/nescapture
+
+FROM nestri-src AS nestri-build
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cargo/registry \
+ --mount=type=cache,target=/build/nestri/target \
+ cargo build --release \
+ -p nesinit -p nescope -p neshub -p neswire -p nescapture && \
+ mkdir -p /artifacts/nestri/usr/bin /artifacts/nestri/usr/lib \
+ /artifacts/nestri/usr/share/vulkan/implicit_layer.d && \
+ install -Dm755 target/release/nesinit /artifacts/nestri/usr/bin/nesinit && \
+ install -Dm755 target/release/nescope /artifacts/nestri/usr/bin/nescope && \
+ install -Dm755 target/release/neshub /artifacts/nestri/usr/bin/neshub && \
+ install -Dm755 target/release/neswire /artifacts/nestri/usr/bin/neswire && \
+ install -Dm755 target/release/libnescapture_layer.so \
+ /artifacts/nestri/usr/lib/libnescapture_layer.so && \
+ install -Dm644 apps/nescapture/manifest/VK_LAYER_nescapture.json \
+ /artifacts/nestri/usr/share/vulkan/implicit_layer.d/VK_LAYER_nescapture.json && \
+ find /artifacts/nestri -type f -printf '/%P\n' > /artifacts/nestri/.manifest
+
+
+# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# Proton — pulled, not built here
+#
+# Building it takes hours and it changes only when its own tag moves, so it
+# has a cadence of its own and an image of its own. The published image is
+# `FROM scratch` over the tree, so its root *is* the tree and there is nothing
+# in it to run — only something to copy from.
+#
+# Built with `--enable-wow64`, which is the whole reason it is a build of ours
+# rather than the distribution's package. wow64 runs 32-bit Windows code
+# inside a 64-bit unix process, so a box needs no lib32 anything: no 32-bit
+# glibc, no second Mesa for i686, and — the one that matters most here — no
+# second capture layer, because the game is a 64-bit process and loads the
+# 64-bit Vulkan loader the existing layer already sits in. The distribution's
+# package is built without the flag, which is exactly why it depends on
+# lib32-*.
+#
+# Override to build it yourself; the tag is a version and moves deliberately.
+# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+FROM ${PROTON_IMAGE} AS proton
+
+
+# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# os-base — the Arch rootfs itself
+#
+# `FROM archlinux:base` directly, and `pacman -S` as plain RUN steps — not a
+# privileged host `chroot` into a hand-extracted tarball, which would need
+# /proc, /sys and /dev bind-mounted in first (they don't exist inside a chroot
+# target until something puts them there). A Containerfile RUN step already
+# executes inside a real container with its own /proc, /sys, /dev, so there is
+# no bind-mount step to write at all.
+#
+# # systemd goes; systemd-libs stays
+#
+# Nothing in the package list below depends on `systemd`, and two things in it
+# — dbus-daemon and wireplumber — link `libsystemd.so.0`, which comes from the
+# separate `systemd-libs` package. So the removal is `-Rdd` of `systemd` and
+# `systemd-sysvcompat` only, which is normal rather than a compromise: keeping
+# the library while having no PID 1 from it is exactly how a distribution
+# without systemd ships these same programs.
+#
+# Removing the package also removes its pacman hooks, which is the point. The
+# hooks call `systemd-tmpfiles`, `systemd-sysusers` and `udevadm`; leaving them
+# behind while deleting what they call is how a later transaction fails
+# obscurely, and a previous attempt at this image lost two services to exactly
+# that.
+# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+FROM docker.io/archlinux:base AS os-base
+
+# The base image ships an unsigned local keyring, so upgrading
+# `archlinux-keyring` runs a hook that reports `There is no secret key
+# available to sign with` and then `error: command failed to execute
+# correctly`. It is cosmetic and it is also every Arch container's build log.
+# One line fixes it, and it is worth the seconds: a build that always prints an
+# error is a build nobody reads an error out of.
+RUN pacman-key --init
+
+# Installed first and removed second, so every dependency resolves normally
+# before anything is taken out from under it.
+#
+# Gone with the init system: `openrc`, `udev`, `dbus-openrc`. `udev` is not
+# replaced by anything — `devtmpfs` creates the nodes and init sets the two
+# modes that matter, because the compositor takes input through Wayland and
+# opens nothing udev provides. ref(d-0064)
+#
+# `logrotate` is also gone, and that one is not about the init system: a box
+# keeps no logs to rotate. What is worth reading leaves over the control
+# channel, and `/var/log` is a small tmpfs that is discarded with the box.
+# `mesa` is not in this list, and the two `--assume-installed` flags are why.
+#
+# The distribution's Mesa used to be installed so that every runtime dependency
+# of *a* Mesa was present and correctly versioned, and ours was then overlaid
+# on top. That worked for the unversioned filenames and not for the versioned
+# one: `libgallium-.so` from the package sat beside ours, 53 MB of it,
+# referenced by nothing. Installing it to overwrite most of it was always the
+# roundabout way round; telling pacman the dependency is already satisfied is
+# the direct one.
+#
+# Exactly two flags are needed and both were checked by dropping each in turn:
+# `mesa` is the name two packages depend on, and `opengl-driver` is a virtual
+# provide `libglvnd` requires that only a real driver package satisfies. The
+# other three names Mesa provides — `mesa-libgl`, `libva-driver`,
+# `libva-mesa-driver` — change nothing here, so they are not listed.
+#
+# What makes this safe is that our Mesa is a superset for this image's
+# purposes: it builds the drivers a box can actually use and the package's
+# other ones (apple, asahi, armada, d3d12) are for hardware no box has. What it
+# does *not* build is a software rasteriser, so there is no llvmpipe fallback —
+# a box with no working GPU path now fails instead of rendering slowly, which
+# is the honest outcome for something that exists to stream frames.
+#
+# Two packages below are explicit *because* Mesa is gone, and both used to
+# arrive as its dependencies: `llvm-libs`, which the radeonsi driver links for
+# shader compilation, and `lm_sensors`, which it links for `libsensors.so.5`.
+# The second was found by the check further down rather than by reading the
+# list — dropping a package takes its dependency tree with it, and the part of
+# that tree something else was quietly using is not visible from here.
+RUN pacman -Syu --noconfirm --needed \
+ --assume-installed mesa --assume-installed opengl-driver \
+ dbus \
+ iptables iproute2 \
+ libglvnd libdrm libepoxy libxxf86vm libinput wayland \
+ expat zlib llvm-libs lm_sensors elfutils libva shaderc vulkan-icd-loader \
+ pixman libxkbcommon xcb-util-keysyms xorg-xwayland \
+ pipewire pipewire-audio wireplumber opus \
+ python libunwind \
+ && rm -f /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/dbus-reload.hook \
+ && pacman -Rdd --noconfirm systemd systemd-sysvcompat \
+ && pacman -Scc --noconfirm
+
+# `libunwind` is Wine's, not ours. `ntdll.so` links it, so without it every
+# process Wine starts dies at `could not load ntdll.so`, which is the first
+# thing it loads and reads like Wine itself being broken. Found 2026-09-12,
+# after the prefix had already been created -- so the session got past every
+# check that Proton was present and usable.
+#
+# `python` is not a build dependency here -- the builder stage has its own for
+# Mesa -- it is a *runtime* one. The compatibility tool's entry point is a
+# Python script, so a box without an interpreter starts a game and the launch
+# ends with `env: 'python3': No such file or directory` and an exit status that
+# reads like an ordinary finish. Found 2026-09-12, on the first session that
+# got as far as launching one.
+
+# `dbus-reload.hook` is deleted above, before the removal rather than after,
+# and it is the whole reason that line is there: the hook runs
+# `/usr/share/libalpm/scripts/systemd-hook`, which systemd owns, so the
+# transaction that removes systemd trips its own leftover on the way out —
+# `call to execv failed`, then `error: command failed to execute correctly`.
+# pacman treats a post-transaction hook failure as non-fatal, so the build
+# survives it and the image is fine; what it leaves is an error message in
+# every future transaction and a reader with no way to tell it from a real
+# one. Removing the hook first means the error never happens.
+
+# Nothing left may point at a program that is not here.
+#
+# The specific case above is fixed; this is the general one, and it exists
+# because a hook calling a deleted binary is the exact shape of the failure
+# that took two services off a previous version of this image. A build error
+# is a much better place to find the next one than a log.
+RUN for hook in /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/*.hook; do \
+ exec_line="$(awk -F'= *' '/^Exec/ { print $2; exit }' "$hook")"; \
+ program="${exec_line%% *}"; \
+ case "$program" in /*) ;; *) continue ;; esac; \
+ test -e "$program" \
+ || { echo "$(basename "$hook") runs $program, which is not in the image" >&2; exit 1; }; \
+ done
+
+# The check, because the removal above is the kind of thing a later `pacman
+# -Syu` undoes quietly. A box with systemd's PID 1 back in it boots something
+# other than `nesinit`, and the symptom is a guest that never dials out.
+RUN test ! -e /usr/lib/systemd/systemd \
+ || { echo "systemd's PID 1 is back in the image" >&2; exit 1; }
+
+# `groupadd -f`, because some of these already exist in the base image and the
+# rest have to. Nothing creates them at runtime any more: udev's rules did that
+# for device nodes, and with udev gone init sets the two modes that matter
+# directly. ref(d-0064)
+#
+# **Two users, and they must stay two.** `nestri` runs the services that come
+# with this image; `nesplay` is who a workload runs as. Sharing one user between
+# them is what lets workload code impersonate a service — it can replace the
+# socket a service listens on and answer in its place, and the answer that
+# matters is the address a client is told to connect to. Init refuses an address
+# served by the workload's own user, so a single shared user does not merely
+# weaken that check, it makes every session fail it.
+#
+# The uid a workload actually runs as is chosen by whoever asks for the box, not
+# here; this account exists so that the number has a home, a shell and a name in
+# `ps`, and so the separation has somewhere to be written down.
+RUN groupadd -f audio && groupadd -f video && groupadd -f input && groupadd -f render && \
+ useradd -m -u 1000 -s /bin/bash nestri && \
+ for g in audio video input render; do gpasswd -a nestri "$g" >/dev/null; done && \
+ useradd -m -u 1001 -s /bin/bash nesplay && \
+ for g in audio video input render; do gpasswd -a nesplay "$g" >/dev/null; done
+
+
+# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# runtime — everything common to debug and prod
+# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+FROM os-base AS runtime
+
+# This is what GHCR actually uses to connect a pushed image back to its
+# repo — not a setting to toggle after the fact, a label the image has to
+# carry. Without it a manually-pushed image shows no "used by" repo on its
+# package page even though this Containerfile is exactly what built it.
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/nestrilabs/nestri"
+
+# Our own builds, overlaid on the distro's mesa. The distro package landed
+# first (above) so every runtime dependency of *a* Mesa is present and
+# correctly versioned; this overwrites its .so files with ours.
+#
+# COPY --from runs as root inside this build with no invoking-user uid to
+# stamp onto / or /usr/bin, unlike a host-side `podman cp` + `cp -a` — so
+# there is no ownership-sanity-check to write here. Nothing to catch, on
+# purpose, not an oversight.
+COPY --from=mesa-build /artifacts/mesa/.manifest /tmp/mesa.manifest
+COPY --from=nestri-build /artifacts/nestri/.manifest /tmp/nestri.manifest
+RUN cat /tmp/mesa.manifest /tmp/nestri.manifest > /tmp/.strip-manifest && \
+ rm -f /tmp/mesa.manifest /tmp/nestri.manifest
+COPY --from=mesa-build /artifacts/mesa /
+COPY --from=nestri-build /artifacts/nestri /
+
+# The Proton tree, whose image root is the tree, so this lands it at
+# /usr/share/steam/compatibilitytools.d/proton-cachyos.
+#
+# Deliberately not in the strip manifest above: that list is our own build
+# output, and the two stripping decisions are not the same one. Proton ships
+# a Windows toolchain's worth of PE binaries that `strip` has no business
+# touching, and its unix side is already built the way its own packaging
+# builds it.
+COPY --from=proton / /
+
+RUN ldconfig
+
+COPY build/etc/ /etc/
+
+# `nesinit` is PID 1, and `/usr/bin/init` is the fallback for a kernel started
+# without an explicit `init=`. `systemd-sysvcompat` used to own that path and
+# was removed with the rest of systemd, so nothing else claims it.
+RUN ln -sf nesinit /usr/bin/init
+
+# One id per boot, not one per image.
+#
+# `dbus-uuidgen --ensure=/etc/machine-id` used to run here, which baked one id
+# into the image and made every box built from it the same machine. Init writes
+# a fresh one to /run at boot instead, so both of these are symlinks into a
+# tmpfs — which is also the only place they could be, with a read-only root.
+RUN rm -f /etc/machine-id /var/lib/dbus/machine-id && \
+ mkdir -p /var/lib/dbus && \
+ ln -sf /run/machine-id /etc/machine-id && \
+ ln -sf /run/machine-id /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
+
+# Session mount points. The guest root is read-only at runtime, so a runtime
+# mkdir gets EROFS and takes a service down before it starts — these have to
+# already exist in the image.
+#
+# `/nestri/logs` is a mount point and nothing mounts it from in here any more:
+# a share arrives because the caller named it in the boot descriptor, which is
+# the same rule every other share follows. The directory stays so that naming
+# it works.
+RUN mkdir -p /nestri/install /nestri/user /nestri/work /nestri/game /nestri/logs && \
+ chmod 0755 /nestri /nestri/install /nestri/user /nestri/work /nestri/game /nestri/logs && \
+ mkdir -p /dev/shm && chmod 1777 /dev/shm && \
+ mkdir -p /run/user/1000 /var/log && \
+ # The distribution's own empty `fstab` goes with ours. Nothing in a box
+ # reads either: init mounts what a box always needs, and every share comes
+ # from the boot descriptor. A file that looks like it configures mounts and
+ # is read by nothing is a file somebody edits expecting an effect.
+ rm -f /etc/network/interfaces /etc/inittab /etc/fstab
+
+# Nothing in this image may be an init system except `nesinit`.
+#
+# A service manager arriving as a dependency of something innocuous is the
+# failure this catches, and it is silent otherwise: the extra init does not run
+# — the kernel is told which one to start — it just sits there with its own
+# ideas about what the box should be doing, waiting for somebody to wire it in.
+RUN for intruder in /usr/lib/systemd/systemd /sbin/openrc-init /usr/bin/openrc-init \
+ /sbin/runit-init /usr/bin/runit-init /sbin/dinit /usr/bin/dinit; do \
+ test ! -e "$intruder" || { echo "a second init is in the image: $intruder" >&2; exit 1; }; \
+ done
+
+# What `nesinit` will look for at runtime, checked while there is somebody to
+# read the failure.
+#
+# It is a table compiled into a binary, so a missing program is not a build
+# error — it is a service that does not come up in a box somebody is waiting
+# on, reported over the control channel and read hours later. Checking here
+# turns that into a failed build.
+# Everything this image promises must resolve the libraries it links.
+#
+# This is the check the Mesa change needs: dropping a package that provided
+# libraries is how a binary ends up resolving nothing, and the symptom is not a
+# build failure — it is a service that will not start in a box somebody is
+# waiting on, or a render path that is missing rather than slow. It caught
+# exactly that on the first run, and the missing library was two levels down a
+# dependency tree nobody had reason to read.
+#
+# **Named rather than swept, and that is deliberate.** A sweep over everything
+# in /usr/lib fails on a stock image: a distribution ships optional plugins
+# whose optional dependencies are not installed — pinentry's Qt build, mpg123's
+# JACK output, libdecor's GTK backend — and every one of those was already
+# unresolved before this stage existed. A check that reports a dozen things
+# nobody intends to load is a check the next person deletes. This list is what
+# the image is *for*: the components, the services init starts, the chain
+# between a workload and the GPU, and Wine's own core.
+#
+# **Wine was added after it was missed**, and then narrowed twice, which is
+# worth recording so nobody widens it again.
+#
+# It was missed because the list covered everything this image ships *of ours*
+# and nothing of the compatibility tool's, so an unresolved `libunwind.so.8`
+# behind `ntdll.so` survived a build whose whole purpose is catching that, and
+# surfaced as a session that created a prefix and could not start one process
+# in it.
+#
+# The obvious fix -- sweep every `*-unix/*.so` -- is wrong in both directions.
+# It is noisy: those objects are Wine's optional backends, and their
+# dependencies are a camera library, a media stack, a VR loader, a smartcard
+# daemon and OpenCL, none of which belong in a box. And it cannot see what it
+# is checking: Wine's unix objects **link each other by soname** and are
+# resolved by Wine's own loader rather than by `ld.so`, so `ldd` reports
+# `ntdll.so` and `win32u.so` themselves as missing while they sit in the same
+# directory. Forty files, every one a false positive, hiding the one real
+# entry.
+#
+# So: the programs in `bin/`, which are ordinary ELF and resolve normally, and
+# `ntdll.so`, which is the first thing Wine loads and the one that linked the
+# missing library. That is exactly the failure that got through, with none of
+# the noise. The Windows-side DLLs beside them are not ELF and `ldd` skips them
+# anyway.
+# The output is one file per line with its own missing libraries under it, and
+# then every missing library once at the end. That last list is what somebody
+# acts on -- it is the set of packages to add -- and forty files each naming the
+# same two libraries is not that list. An earlier version printed one
+# comma-joined line and cut the wrong field out of `ldd`, so it named no
+# libraries at all: `ldd` indents with a tab, which `tr -s ' '` does not
+# collapse, so the second space-separated field is `=>`.
+RUN failed=0; \
+ : > /tmp/missing-libs; \
+ for f in /usr/bin/nesinit /usr/bin/nescope /usr/bin/neshub /usr/bin/neswire \
+ /usr/lib/libnescapture_layer.so \
+ /usr/bin/dbus-daemon /usr/bin/pipewire /usr/bin/wireplumber /usr/bin/ip \
+ /usr/lib/libgallium-*.so /usr/lib/libEGL_mesa.so.0 \
+ /usr/lib/libvulkan_*.so /usr/lib/dri/*.so /usr/lib/gbm/*.so \
+ /usr/share/steam/compatibilitytools.d/proton-cachyos/files/bin/* \
+ /usr/share/steam/compatibilitytools.d/proton-cachyos/files/lib*/wine/*-unix/ntdll.so; do \
+ [ -e "$f" ] || continue; \
+ libs="$(ldd "$f" 2>/dev/null | awk '/not found/ { print $1 }')"; \
+ [ -n "$libs" ] || continue; \
+ failed=1; \
+ printf ' %s\n' "$f" >&2; \
+ printf ' %s\n' $libs >&2; \
+ printf '%s\n' $libs >> /tmp/missing-libs; \
+ done; \
+ if [ "$failed" != 0 ]; then \
+ echo "" >&2; \
+ echo " every library above, once each -- this is the list to install:" >&2; \
+ sort -u /tmp/missing-libs | sed 's/^/ /' >&2; \
+ exit 1; \
+ fi
+
+RUN for required in /usr/bin/nesinit /usr/bin/nescope /usr/bin/neshub /usr/bin/neswire \
+ /usr/bin/dbus-daemon /usr/bin/pipewire /usr/bin/wireplumber /usr/bin/ip \
+ /usr/bin/python3 \
+ /usr/share/steam/compatibilitytools.d/proton-cachyos/proton; do \
+ test -x "$required" || { echo "the image is missing $required" >&2; exit 1; }; \
+ done
+
+# An entry point that is executable is not an entry point that runs.
+#
+# The check above passed on an image whose compatibility tool was a Python
+# script with no interpreter behind it: `test -x` says the file may be
+# executed, and the kernel then fails to find what the shebang names. A session
+# got as far as launching a game and ended with
+# `env: 'python3': No such file or directory`.
+#
+# So every script this image promises resolves its own interpreter. `env` is
+# unwrapped where it is used, because a shebang of `#!/usr/bin/env python3`
+# names `env` and the thing that is actually missing is the argument.
+RUN for script in /usr/share/steam/compatibilitytools.d/proton-cachyos/proton; do \
+ head -c 2 "$script" | grep -q '#!' || continue; \
+ shebang="$(head -1 "$script" | sed 's/^#!//')"; \
+ interpreter="${shebang%% *}"; \
+ case "$interpreter" in \
+ */env) argument="${shebang#* }"; interpreter="$(command -v "${argument%% *}" || true)";; \
+ esac; \
+ test -n "$interpreter" && test -x "$interpreter" \
+ || { echo "$script needs an interpreter the image does not have: $shebang" >&2; exit 1; }; \
+ done
+
+
+# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# runtime_prod — the default: `make build`
+# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+FROM runtime AS runtime_prod
+
+# No console is offered by either flavour: `nesinit` spawns no getty, because
+# the way into a guest that will not boot is `init=/bin/bash` on the kernel
+# command line, which needs nothing from the image but a shell. So the locked
+# root account is belt and braces rather than the only thing standing between
+# a box and a login prompt.
+RUN passwd -l root
+
+RUN while IFS= read -r f; do \
+ [ -f "$f" ] && strip --strip-unneeded "$f" 2>/dev/null || true; \
+ done < /tmp/.strip-manifest; \
+ rm -rf /tmp/.strip-manifest /var/cache/pacman/pkg/* /tmp/* /root/.cache \
+ /usr/share/man /usr/share/doc /usr/share/locale \
+ /usr/lib/cmake /usr/lib/pkgconfig /usr/share/pkgconfig /usr/include \
+ /usr/share/gir-1.0 /usr/lib/udev; \
+ find /usr/lib -name '*.a' -delete
+
+RUN echo "NESTRI_STAGE=runtime_prod" >> /etc/os-release
+
+
+# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# runtime_debug — `make build-debug`
+# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+FROM runtime AS runtime_debug
+
+# `-Sy` and not `-Syu`: a full upgrade here can pull a package back in as
+# somebody's dependency, and the one that matters is systemd. The check below
+# catches it either way, but a debug image that fails to build is worse than
+# one that is a few days behind on versions it only uses for `vulkaninfo`.
+RUN pacman -Sy --noconfirm --needed vulkan-tools mesa-utils libva-utils && \
+ pacman -Scc --noconfirm
+
+# The same guard as the runtime stage, because the transaction above is exactly
+# the kind that quietly reinstates an init system.
+RUN test ! -e /usr/lib/systemd/systemd \
+ || { echo "systemd's PID 1 came back with the debug tools" >&2; exit 1; }
+
+# Root has a password here and nothing offers a login prompt to type it into.
+# It is for `su` from an `init=/bin/bash` shell, which is the whole debug route.
+RUN echo 'root:nestri' | chpasswd
+
+RUN echo "NESTRI_STAGE=runtime_debug" >> /etc/os-release
diff --git a/build/Containerfile.containerignore b/build/Containerfile.containerignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d586ed96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/Containerfile.containerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# The guest rootfs build's context.
+#
+# The name is load-bearing and it is not `.containerignore`. Podman looks for
+# an ignore file *adjacent to the Containerfile and named after it* — here,
+# `Containerfile.containerignore` — before falling back to one at the root of
+# the build context. The context is the repository root, so a bare
+# `build/.containerignore` sits in neither place and is silently read by
+# nothing: the build still works, it just sends the whole tree.
+#
+# Docker looks for the `.dockerignore` suffix only, so a docker build reads the
+# repository-root file instead of this one and sends more than it needs. That
+# is the cost of the container-agnostic name and it is only a cost in bytes.
+#
+# This file *replaces* the repository-wide ignore file rather than adding to
+# it, so the first block below is that file repeated. The second is what only
+# this build excludes.
+#
+# This build's context is the repository root (see `Makefile`), and it COPYs
+# the workspace manifests plus the Rust members and nothing else. The
+# TypeScript half is therefore dead weight in the context — a few megabytes
+# sent to the daemon versus the whole tree.
+.git
+node_modules
+target
+build/output
+.env
+.env.*
+.wrangler
+dist
+.output
+
+docs
+apps/api
+apps/auth
+packages
+*.md
+deno.lock
+bun.lock
+.zed
+.github
diff --git a/build/Containerfile.proton b/build/Containerfile.proton
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b09befac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/Containerfile.proton
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+# ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+# proton-cachyos, built wow64-only
+#
+# Separate from the guest Containerfile because it is a separate cadence:
+# hours to build, and only when PROTON_TAG moves. The guest image pulls the
+# result from a registry instead of rebuilding it, which is why this file is
+# not part of that build and is not reached by `make build`.
+#
+# The final stage is FROM scratch, so the image *is* the Proton tree — nothing
+# to run, only something to COPY --from.
+#
+# Build and publish with `make proton-image` / `make proton-push`. **Its
+# context is this directory**, not the repository root the guest build uses:
+# all it needs is the two scripts beside it, and a context of the whole tree
+# would hand it a multi-gigabyte `output/` for no reason.
+#
+# `PROTON_TAG` is the one thing to change, and the Makefile derives the
+# published image's version from it. They are the same number in two
+# spellings, and an image whose name does not say which Proton is inside it
+# is worse than no image.
+# ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+FROM docker.io/archlinux:base-devel AS builder
+
+# proton-cachyos-native's makedepends, minus every lib32-* (that is the whole
+# point of --enable-wow64), with two substitutions Arch requires: ocl-icd
+# provides opencl-icd-loader, and mesa-libgl is folded into libglvnd.
+#
+# glib2-devel is the one that is easy to miss — it carries glib-mkenums, which
+# libsoup's meson looks up through glib-2.0's pkg-config variables and fails on
+# obscurely. unzip and zip are for the xalia dist step. afdko is not packaged at
+# all, and the fonts submodule needs it, so it comes from PyPI.
+RUN pacman -Syu --noconfirm --needed \
+ alsa-lib clang cmake curl ffmpeg fontforge giflib git glib2-devel \
+ glslang gnutls gtk3 libgphoto2 libglvnd libpulse libva libxcomposite \
+ libxinerama libxxf86vm lld mesa meson ninja nasm \
+ opencl-headers ocl-icd pcsclite perl perl-json python python-pip \
+ python-pefile python-setuptools-scm rsync rust samba unixodbc \
+ unzip zip v4l-utils vulkan-headers vulkan-icd-loader wayland \
+ wayland-protocols wget xorg-util-macros \
+ mingw-w64-gcc mingw-w64-binutils mingw-w64-crt mingw-w64-headers \
+ mingw-w64-winpthreads \
+ && pip install --break-system-packages --no-cache-dir afdko \
+ && pacman -Scc --noconfirm
+
+# widl generates vkd3d's public headers. Without it autoconf sets HAVE_WIDL to
+# false, the headers are silently not generated, and the build dies an hour
+# later on a missing vkd3d_d3dx9shader.h. Arch ships widl only inside `wine`,
+# which requires multilib; the AUR's mingw-w64-tools builds it standalone, so do
+# the same.
+#
+# The digest is not a formality. What is extracted here has its `configure` and
+# its makefiles run as root in this builder, and what they produce is copied
+# into the image a box runs -- so whoever can change these bytes can change what
+# runs on every host. SourceForge hands the request to whichever mirror it
+# likes, over a connection this builder does not pin, and the project publishes
+# no signature. The digest is the only thing that makes the mirror not matter.
+#
+# Taken 2026-09-14 from two different mirrors of v14.0.0, which agreed. A
+# mismatch here is not a thing to paper over by taking the new digest: it means
+# the bytes behind this exact version string changed, and that wants looking at
+# before it wants fixing.
+ARG MINGW_W64_VER=14.0.0
+ARG MINGW_W64_SHA256=6eaf921d9eb987d3820b364ea9775bc19b965ec81490b6fdd716526c28e1995c
+RUN curl -fL --retry 3 -o /tmp/mingw-w64.tar.bz2 \
+ "https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/mingw-w64/mingw-w64-release/mingw-w64-v${MINGW_W64_VER}.tar.bz2/download" \
+ && echo "${MINGW_W64_SHA256} /tmp/mingw-w64.tar.bz2" | sha256sum -c - \
+ && tar xf /tmp/mingw-w64.tar.bz2 -C /tmp \
+ && for arch in i686-w64-mingw32 x86_64-w64-mingw32; do \
+ mkdir -p "/tmp/widl-${arch}" && cd "/tmp/widl-${arch}" \
+ && "/tmp/mingw-w64-v${MINGW_W64_VER}/mingw-w64-tools/widl/configure" \
+ --prefix=/usr --target="${arch}" --program-prefix="${arch}-" \
+ && make -j"$(nproc)" && make install; \
+ done \
+ && rm -rf /tmp/mingw-w64* /tmp/widl-*
+
+WORKDIR /build
+
+ARG PROTON_GIT=https://github.com/CachyOS/proton-cachyos.git
+ARG PROTON_TAG=cachyos-11.0-20260703-native
+ARG GECKO_VER=2.47.4
+ARG MONO_VER=11.2.0
+ARG XALIA_VER=0.4.9
+ARG JOBS=
+
+# Fetch and build are separate layers on purpose: the submodule checkout runs
+# well past ten minutes, and a build that fails on a flag or a missing tool must
+# not pay for it again.
+COPY scripts/proton-fetch.sh /build/proton-fetch.sh
+RUN PROTON_GIT="${PROTON_GIT}" PROTON_TAG="${PROTON_TAG}" \
+ GECKO_VER="${GECKO_VER}" MONO_VER="${MONO_VER}" XALIA_VER="${XALIA_VER}" \
+ bash /build/proton-fetch.sh
+
+COPY scripts/proton-build.sh /build/proton-build.sh
+RUN GECKO_VER="${GECKO_VER}" MONO_VER="${MONO_VER}" JOBS="${JOBS}" \
+ bash /build/proton-build.sh
+
+
+# ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+# The publishable artifact: the Proton tree and nothing else
+# ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+FROM scratch
+COPY --from=builder /artifacts/proton/ /
diff --git a/build/Containerfile.proton.containerignore b/build/Containerfile.proton.containerignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f7b2c9b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/Containerfile.proton.containerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# This build's context is `build/`, not the repository root, because all it
+# needs is the two scripts beside the Containerfile.
+#
+# `output/` is the reason this file exists. It holds packed rootfs images —
+# multiple gigabytes each — and a build context is copied before the first
+# instruction runs, so without this line every Proton build starts by moving
+# the last one it produced.
+output
+
+# Nothing else here is an input to this build.
+etc
+README.md
+Makefile
+Containerfile
+Containerfile.containerignore
diff --git a/build/Dockerfile b/build/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index 0c9be9e3..00000000
--- a/build/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,309 +0,0 @@
-# ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
-# nestri guest rootfs — the open half
-#
-# Builds a bootable Artix/OpenRC image containing Mesa (virtio-gpu native
-# context) and the four open guest components: nescope, neshub, neswire,
-# nescapture. Two leaf targets, selected with `--target`:
-#
-# runtime_prod stripped, root locked (default: `make build`)
-# runtime_debug debug tools, autologin root (`make build-debug`)
-#
-# What is deliberately NOT here: Proton, Valve's steamclient.so, or anything
-# else closed. nestri/CLAUDE.md is explicit that nothing closed enters this
-# repo. Whatever layers those on top of runtime_prod is a closed build
-# outside this repo — see build/README.md.
-#
-# Build from the repo root, not from build/:
-# docker build -f build/Dockerfile --target runtime_prod -t nestri-guest .
-# (`make build` in this directory does exactly that.)
-# ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
-
-
-# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-# initial / builder — Arch, not Artix
-#
-# The guest is Artix, but Artix's repos are Arch-derived and the toolchain/
-# glibc generation is the same, while the archlinux image is the
-# better-maintained of the two for actually compiling things. Only build
-# artifacts leave these stages.
-# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-FROM docker.io/archlinux:base-devel AS initial
-RUN pacman -Syu --noconfirm
-
-FROM initial AS builder
-RUN pacman -S --noconfirm --needed \
- cmake meson ninja git pkgconf \
- python python-mako python-yaml python-packaging python-ply \
- bison flex \
- libpciaccess libepoxy libglvnd \
- libx11 libxext libxrandr libxshmfence libxfixes libxxf86vm libxcb \
- xcb-util-keysyms xorgproto \
- wayland wayland-protocols \
- expat zlib zstd libxml2 lm_sensors \
- llvm clang libclc spirv-tools spirv-llvm-translator glslang \
- elfutils libva libdrm directx-headers \
- rust rust-bindgen cbindgen \
- curl openssl \
- pixman libxkbcommon \
- vulkan-headers vulkan-icd-loader \
- pipewire shaderc opus \
- libinput \
- && pacman -Scc --noconfirm
-WORKDIR /build
-ENV ARTIFACTS=/artifacts
-
-
-# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-# Mesa — the only piece still fetched from outside this tree
-# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-FROM builder AS mesa-build
-
-ARG MESA_GIT=https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa.git
-ARG MESA_COMMIT=b78fc73dd898a7dfa87448a4b5ff4459a870e21a
-
-RUN git clone --depth=1 --revision="${MESA_COMMIT}" "${MESA_GIT}" /build/mesa-src && \
- cd /build/mesa-src && \
- meson setup builddir \
- -Dprefix=/usr \
- -Dbuildtype=release \
- -Dplatforms=wayland,x11 \
- -Dgallium-drivers=zink,radeonsi,iris \
- -Dvulkan-drivers=amd,intel \
- -Damdgpu-virtio=true \
- -Dintel-virtio-experimental=true \
- -Dvideo-codecs=all \
- -Degl=enabled \
- -Dglx=dri \
- -Dgles1=enabled \
- -Dgles2=enabled \
- -Dgbm=enabled \
- -Dgallium-va=enabled \
- -Db_ndebug=true && \
- ninja -C builddir && \
- DESTDIR=/artifacts/mesa ninja -C builddir install && \
- rm -rf /build/mesa-src && \
- find /artifacts/mesa -type f -printf '/%P\n' > /artifacts/mesa/.manifest
-
-
-# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-# nestri workspace — same repo now, so this is COPY, not a private clone
-#
-# One `cargo build --release --workspace` rather than one stage per binary:
-# that per-repo splitting existed because nescope/neswire/nescapture/the hub
-# were four separate private repos and a stage boundary was the only way to
-# stop bumping one from invalidating the others' build cache. They are one
-# Cargo workspace with one Cargo.lock now, so a BuildKit cache mount on
-# target/ gives the same isolation — cargo's own incremental compiler
-# already knows nescope changing does not touch nesprotocol's .rlib — without
-# four copies of every shared dependency getting compiled once per stage.
-# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-FROM builder AS nestri-src
-WORKDIR /build/nestri
-COPY Cargo.toml Cargo.lock ./
-COPY crates/nesprotocol crates/nesprotocol
-COPY apps/nescope apps/nescope
-COPY apps/neshub apps/neshub
-COPY apps/neswire apps/neswire
-COPY apps/nescapture apps/nescapture
-
-FROM nestri-src AS nestri-build
-RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cargo/registry \
- --mount=type=cache,target=/build/nestri/target \
- cargo build --release --workspace && \
- mkdir -p /artifacts/nestri/usr/bin /artifacts/nestri/usr/lib \
- /artifacts/nestri/usr/share/vulkan/implicit_layer.d && \
- install -Dm755 target/release/nescope /artifacts/nestri/usr/bin/nescope && \
- install -Dm755 target/release/neshub /artifacts/nestri/usr/bin/neshub && \
- install -Dm755 target/release/neswire /artifacts/nestri/usr/bin/neswire && \
- install -Dm755 target/release/libnescapture_layer.so \
- /artifacts/nestri/usr/lib/libnescapture_layer.so && \
- install -Dm644 apps/nescapture/manifest/VK_LAYER_nescapture.json \
- /artifacts/nestri/usr/share/vulkan/implicit_layer.d/VK_LAYER_nescapture.json && \
- find /artifacts/nestri -type f -printf '/%P\n' > /artifacts/nestri/.manifest
-
-
-# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-# os-base — the Artix rootfs itself
-#
-# `FROM artixlinux/artixlinux:base-openrc` directly, and `pacman -S` as plain
-# RUN steps — not a privileged host `chroot` into a hand-extracted tarball,
-# which would need /proc, /sys and /dev bind-mounted in first (they don't
-# exist inside a chroot target until something puts them there). A
-# Dockerfile RUN step already executes inside a real container with its own
-# /proc, /sys, /dev, so there is no bind-mount step to write at all.
-# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-FROM docker.io/artixlinux/artixlinux:base-openrc AS os-base
-
-RUN pacman -Syu --noconfirm --needed \
- base openrc udev dbus dbus-openrc \
- iptables iproute2 \
- mesa libglvnd libdrm libepoxy libxxf86vm libinput wayland \
- expat zlib llvm-libs elfutils libva shaderc vulkan-icd-loader \
- pixman libxkbcommon xcb-util-keysyms xorg-xwayland \
- pipewire pipewire-audio wireplumber dbus logrotate opus \
- && pacman -Scc --noconfirm
-
-# groupadd -f so this is idempotent whether or not udev's rules already
-# created these.
-#
-# **Two users, and they must stay two.** `nestri` runs the services that come
-# with this image; `nesplay` is who a workload runs as. Sharing one user between
-# them is what lets workload code impersonate a service — it can replace the
-# socket a service listens on and answer in its place, and the answer that
-# matters is the address a client is told to connect to. Init refuses an address
-# served by the workload's own user, so a single shared user does not merely
-# weaken that check, it makes every session fail it.
-#
-# The uid a workload actually runs as is chosen by whoever asks for the box, not
-# here; this account exists so that the number has a home, a shell and a name in
-# `ps`, and so the separation has somewhere to be written down.
-RUN groupadd -f audio && groupadd -f video && groupadd -f input && groupadd -f render && \
- useradd -m -u 1000 -s /bin/bash nestri && \
- for g in audio video input render; do gpasswd -a nestri "$g" >/dev/null; done && \
- useradd -m -u 1001 -s /bin/bash nesplay && \
- for g in audio video input render; do gpasswd -a nesplay "$g" >/dev/null; done
-
-
-# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-# runtime — everything common to debug and prod
-# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-FROM os-base AS runtime
-
-# This is what GHCR actually uses to connect a pushed image back to its
-# repo — not a setting to toggle after the fact, a label the image has to
-# carry. Without it a manually-pushed image shows no "used by" repo on its
-# package page even though this Dockerfile is exactly what built it.
-LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/nestrilabs/nestri"
-
-# Our own builds, overlaid on the distro's mesa. The distro package landed
-# first (above) so every runtime dependency of *a* Mesa is present and
-# correctly versioned; this overwrites its .so files with ours.
-#
-# COPY --from runs as root inside this build with no invoking-user uid to
-# stamp onto / or /usr/bin, unlike a host-side `podman cp` + `cp -a` — so
-# there is no ownership-sanity-check to write here. Nothing to catch, on
-# purpose, not an oversight.
-COPY --from=mesa-build /artifacts/mesa/.manifest /tmp/mesa.manifest
-COPY --from=nestri-build /artifacts/nestri/.manifest /tmp/nestri.manifest
-RUN cat /tmp/mesa.manifest /tmp/nestri.manifest > /tmp/.strip-manifest && \
- rm -f /tmp/mesa.manifest /tmp/nestri.manifest
-COPY --from=mesa-build /artifacts/mesa /
-COPY --from=nestri-build /artifacts/nestri /
-RUN ldconfig
-
-COPY build/etc/ /etc/
-RUN chmod +x /etc/init.d/*
-
-# dbus-session, pipewire and wireplumber carry no conf.d of their own — they
-# just want the shared environment, so their conf.d is a symlink to it rather
-# than a copy. nescope, neshub and neswire are deliberately absent from this
-# loop: each has a conf.d file of its own (already landed by the COPY above)
-# that sources nestri-user-env, because each needs settings the shared file
-# does not carry. Symlinking them here would overwrite those.
-RUN for svc in dbus-session pipewire wireplumber; do \
- ln -sf nestri-user-env "/etc/conf.d/${svc}"; \
- done
-
-RUN echo nesbox > /etc/hostname && dbus-uuidgen --ensure=/etc/machine-id
-
-# Session mount points. The guest root is read-only at runtime, so a runtime
-# mkdir gets EROFS and takes a service down before it starts — these have to
-# already exist in the image.
-RUN mkdir -p /nestri/install /nestri/user /nestri/work /nestri/game /nestri/logs && \
- chmod 0755 /nestri /nestri/install /nestri/user /nestri/work /nestri/game /nestri/logs && \
- mkdir -p /dev/shm && chmod 1777 /dev/shm && \
- rm -f /etc/network/interfaces
-
-# Serial console: the only way into a guest that will not boot.
-RUN rm -f /etc/inittab && \
- ln -sf agetty /etc/init.d/agetty.hvc0 && \
- { grep -qx hvc0 /etc/securetty || echo hvc0 >> /etc/securetty; }
-
-# Every init.d script calling nestri_export_env needs a conf.d that actually
-# defines it. Worth a build-time check: the failure at runtime is nearly
-# invisible — OpenRC sources the script, the undefined function is a
-# "command not found" on stderr, sourcing still returns 0, and the service
-# starts anyway with HOME and every XDG_* unset.
-RUN missing=""; \
- for svc_script in /etc/init.d/*; do \
- grep -qE '^[[:space:]]*nestri_export_env\b' "$svc_script" 2>/dev/null || continue; \
- svc="$(basename "$svc_script")"; \
- . "/etc/conf.d/$svc" >/dev/null 2>&1; \
- command -v nestri_export_env >/dev/null 2>&1 || missing="$missing $svc"; \
- done; \
- [ -z "$missing" ] || { echo "init scripts call nestri_export_env with no conf.d providing it:$missing" >&2; exit 1; }
-
-# ── OpenRC service registration ──
-# sysinit
-RUN rc-update add devfs sysinit && \
- rc-update add dmesg sysinit && \
- rc-update add udev sysinit && \
- rc-update add udev-trigger sysinit && \
- (rc-update del kmod-static-nodes sysinit || true)
-
-# boot — guest-net replaces the distro's networking scripts entirely; it
-# declares `provide net` and brings up lo itself.
-RUN (rc-update del networking boot || true) && \
- (rc-update del network-async boot || true) && rm -f /etc/init.d/network-async && \
- rc-update add guest-net boot && \
- (rc-update del net.lo boot || true) && \
- (rc-update del netmount boot || true) && \
- (rc-update del netmount default || true) && \
- rc-update add hostname boot && \
- rc-update add xdg-runtime boot && \
- rc-update add cgroups boot && \
- (rc-update del syslog boot || true)
-
-# Boot-runlevel services with nothing to do in a freshly-built microVM: no
-# physical console, no swap, and fsck would be checking a filesystem nobody
-# has touched.
-RUN for svc in fsck keymaps save-keymaps termencoding save-termencoding swap binfmt seedrng hwclock swclock; do \
- (rc-update del "$svc" boot || true); \
- (rc-update del "$svc" shutdown || true); \
- done
-
-# default — the user-facing stack. nescope is registered in plain-compositor
-# mode (no payload after `--`): it comes up and waits for something to
-# connect. Actually starting a payload is nesinit's job, and nesinit is not
-# open code yet — see build/README.md.
-RUN rc-update add agetty.hvc0 default && \
- for n in 1 2 3 4 5 6; do (rc-update del "agetty.tty${n}" default || true); done && \
- rc-update add dbus default && \
- rc-update add dbus-session default && \
- rc-update add pipewire default && \
- rc-update add wireplumber default && \
- rc-update add neshub default && \
- rc-update add neswire default && \
- rc-update add nescope default && \
- rm -f /etc/init.d/shared-root && (rc-update del shared-root boot || true)
-
-
-# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-# runtime_prod — the default: `make build`
-# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-FROM runtime AS runtime_prod
-
-RUN passwd -l root
-COPY build/etc/conf.d/agetty.hvc0.prod /etc/conf.d/agetty.hvc0
-
-RUN while IFS= read -r f; do \
- [ -f "$f" ] && strip --strip-unneeded "$f" 2>/dev/null || true; \
- done < /tmp/.strip-manifest; \
- rm -rf /tmp/.strip-manifest /var/cache/pacman/pkg/* /tmp/* /root/.cache \
- /usr/share/man /usr/share/doc /usr/share/locale \
- /usr/lib/cmake /usr/lib/pkgconfig /usr/share/pkgconfig /usr/include
-
-RUN echo "NESTRI_STAGE=runtime_prod" >> /etc/os-release
-
-
-# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-# runtime_debug — `make build-debug`
-# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-FROM runtime AS runtime_debug
-
-RUN pacman -Syu --noconfirm --needed vulkan-tools mesa-utils libva-utils && \
- pacman -Scc --noconfirm
-RUN echo 'root:nestri' | chpasswd
-COPY build/etc/conf.d/agetty.hvc0.debug /etc/conf.d/agetty.hvc0
-
-RUN echo "NESTRI_STAGE=runtime_debug" >> /etc/os-release
diff --git a/build/Dockerfile.dockerignore b/build/Dockerfile.dockerignore
deleted file mode 100644
index c96e0acd..00000000
--- a/build/Dockerfile.dockerignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-# The guest rootfs build's context.
-#
-# A `.dockerignore` *replaces* the repository-wide `.dockerignore`
-# rather than adding to it, so the first block below is that file repeated. The
-# second is what only this build excludes.
-#
-# This build's context is the repository root (see `Makefile`), and it COPYs
-# the workspace manifests plus the Rust members and nothing else. The
-# TypeScript half is therefore dead weight in the context — a few megabytes
-# sent to the daemon versus the whole tree.
-.git
-node_modules
-target
-build/output
-.env
-.env.*
-.wrangler
-dist
-.output
-
-docs
-apps/api
-apps/auth
-packages
-*.md
-deno.lock
-bun.lock
-.zed
-.github
diff --git a/build/Makefile b/build/Makefile
index dc2c331b..e5c33dd2 100644
--- a/build/Makefile
+++ b/build/Makefile
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
SHELL := /bin/bash
-.PHONY: build build-debug image image-debug clean help
+.PHONY: build build-debug image image-debug proton-image proton-push clean help
-CONTAINER_RT := $(shell command -v docker 2>/dev/null || command -v podman 2>/dev/null)
+CONTAINER_RT := $(shell command -v podman 2>/dev/null || command -v docker 2>/dev/null)
ifeq ($(CONTAINER_RT),)
$(error "Neither docker nor podman found in PATH")
endif
-# The Dockerfile COPYs from apps/ and crates/, so the build context is the
+# The Containerfile COPYs from apps/ and crates/, so the build context is the
# repo root, not this directory — same reason borealis's build/ *is* its own
# context: here the guest source lives one level up instead of inside build/.
CONTEXT := ..
@@ -27,17 +27,47 @@ CONTEXT := ..
# where it does not exist. One name, always pullable, beats a local-only
# short name and a different published one.
IMAGE_NAME := ghcr.io/nestrilabs/nestri/base
+
+# Proton is the one artifact worth publishing on its own: it takes hours to
+# build and changes only when its tag moves, so the guest build pulls it by
+# name instead of rebuilding it.
+#
+# `PROTON_TAG` is the single place to change it. The published version is
+# derived from the tag rather than written twice, because the two are the same
+# number in two spellings and an image whose name does not say which Proton is
+# inside it is worse than no image at all. Changing the tag by hand and
+# forgetting the version is exactly the mistake this removes.
+PROTON_TAG ?= cachyos-11.0-20260703-native
+PROTON_VERSION := $(PROTON_TAG:cachyos-%-native=%)
+PROTON_IMAGE ?= ghcr.io/nestrilabs/proton-cachyos-native-wow64
+PROTON_REF := $(PROTON_IMAGE):$(PROTON_VERSION)
OUTPUT_DIR := output
-ROOTFS_SIZE ?= 5G
+ROOTFS_SIZE ?= 3G
FORCE_REBUILD ?=
build:
DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 $(CONTAINER_RT) build $(if $(FORCE_REBUILD),--no-cache,) \
- -f Dockerfile -t $(IMAGE_NAME):latest --target runtime_prod $(CONTEXT)
+ --build-arg PROTON_IMAGE=$(PROTON_REF) \
+ -f Containerfile -t $(IMAGE_NAME):latest --target runtime_prod $(CONTEXT)
build-debug:
DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 $(CONTAINER_RT) build $(if $(FORCE_REBUILD),--no-cache,) \
- -f Dockerfile -t $(IMAGE_NAME):debug --target runtime_debug $(CONTEXT)
+ --build-arg PROTON_IMAGE=$(PROTON_REF) \
+ -f Containerfile -t $(IMAGE_NAME):debug --target runtime_debug $(CONTEXT)
+
+# Hours, and only when PROTON_TAG moves. Its context is this directory rather
+# than the repository root: the two scripts beside the Containerfile are the
+# whole input, and the root would hand it everything else for nothing.
+proton-image:
+ DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 $(CONTAINER_RT) build $(if $(FORCE_REBUILD),--no-cache,) \
+ --build-arg PROTON_TAG=$(PROTON_TAG) \
+ -f Containerfile.proton -t $(PROTON_REF) .
+ @echo "Built $(PROTON_REF)"
+
+# Publishing is what makes `make build` cheap for everyone else, since that
+# build pulls this by name. Push before expecting anyone to use a new tag.
+proton-push: proton-image
+ $(CONTAINER_RT) push $(PROTON_REF)
# Not `sudo make image`/sudo'd in here: mkimage.sh runs as you and escalates
# only the specific commands that need root. Under rootless Podman, `make
@@ -62,5 +92,8 @@ help:
@echo " make image Build + pack runtime_prod into output/rootfs.ext4"
@echo " make image-debug Build + pack runtime_debug into output/rootfs-debug.ext4"
@echo " make clean Remove output/"
+ @echo " make proton-image Build Proton from source (hours)"
+ @echo " make proton-push Build it and publish it"
@echo " make FORCE_REBUILD=1 ... Rebuild from scratch, no layer cache"
+ @echo " make PROTON_TAG=... ... Use a different proton-cachyos tag"
@echo " make ROOTFS_SIZE=8G image Override the packed image size (default 5G)"
diff --git a/build/README.md b/build/README.md
index 4759b93a..766b6e35 100644
--- a/build/README.md
+++ b/build/README.md
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
# build/ — the guest rootfs
-Builds a bootable Artix/OpenRC image for the box's virtio-blk root: Mesa
-(virtio-gpu native context) plus the four open guest components —
-[`nescope`](../apps/nescope), [`neshub`](../apps/neshub),
-[`neswire`](../apps/neswire), [`nescapture`](../apps/nescapture) — laid out
+Builds a bootable Arch image for the box's virtio-blk root: Mesa (virtio-gpu
+native context) plus the five open guest components —
+[`nesinit`](../apps/nesinit), [`nescope`](../apps/nescope),
+[`neshub`](../apps/neshub), [`neswire`](../apps/neswire),
+[`nescapture`](../apps/nescapture) — laid out
the way [borealis](https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/overlays/board-overlays/+/main/project-borealis)
-lays out its `build/`: one big multi-stage `Dockerfile`, `--target` picks the
+lays out its `build/`: one big multi-stage `Containerfile`, `--target` picks the
flavor, `etc/` holds the files that get overlaid onto the image verbatim.
```
build/
-├── Dockerfile everything, in stages: mesa-build, nestri-build,
+├── Containerfile everything, in stages: mesa-build, nestri-build,
│ os-base, runtime, runtime_prod, runtime_debug
├── etc/ overlaid onto the image's /etc as-is
├── scripts/
@@ -24,6 +25,9 @@ make build # docker build --target runtime_prod → ghcr.io/nestrilab
make build-debug # docker build --target runtime_debug → ghcr.io/nestrilabs/nestri/base:debug
make image # + pack into output/rootfs.ext4
make image-debug # + pack into output/rootfs-debug.ext4
+
+make proton-image # build Proton from source — hours
+make proton-push # build it and publish it
```
## Design notes
@@ -33,10 +37,10 @@ Three things worth knowing about how this is put together:
1. **No privileged host chroot.** A bare `chroot` into a hand-extracted
rootfs needs `/proc`, `/sys`, `/dev` bind-mounted in first — they don't
exist inside a chroot target until something puts them there. `os-base`
- here is `FROM artixlinux/artixlinux:base-openrc` directly, with
- `pacman -S` as plain `RUN` steps — a Docker build step already runs
- inside a real container with its own `/proc`, `/sys`, `/dev`, so that
- whole bind-mount mechanism has nothing to do.
+ here is `FROM archlinux:base` directly, with `pacman -S` as plain `RUN`
+ steps — a Docker build step already runs inside a real container with its
+ own `/proc`, `/sys`, `/dev`, so that whole bind-mount mechanism has nothing
+ to do.
2. **No host-side ownership bug to guard against.** `COPY --from=` runs as
root inside the build with no host user in the loop, so there's no
@@ -50,44 +54,194 @@ Three things worth knowing about how this is put together:
own incremental compiler per-crate isolation without needing a separate
Docker stage (and a separate full rebuild of `nesprotocol`) per binary.
-**What is deliberately not here: Proton, and Valve's `steamclient.so`.**
+**What is deliberately not here: Valve's `steamclient.so`.**
`nestri/CLAUDE.md` is explicit — *"Nothing closed may enter this repo. Not
-source, not a dependency, not a directory that 'looked convenient'."* Both
-are closed. `runtime_prod` from this Dockerfile — tagged
-`ghcr.io/nestrilabs/nestri/base:latest` — is a complete, bootable, Steam-less guest image,
+source, not a dependency, not a directory that 'looked convenient'."* That one
+is closed, so whatever layers it on top is a build outside this repo — not
+something this repo names, links to, or depends on.
+
+**Proton is here, and this paragraph used to say it was not.** The old wording
+put Proton and `steamclient.so` together and called both closed, which is
+wrong about Proton: it is compiled from source, which is not a thing you can
+do with closed software. Keeping it out cost a box the only way it has to run
+a Windows title, for a rule that did not apply to it.
+
+What it is: **proton-cachyos built with `--enable-wow64`**, pulled by tag as a
+published image rather than rebuilt here, because it takes hours and moves
+only when its own tag does. `PROTON_IMAGE` overrides the tag, and it has to be
+declared before the first `FROM` — an `ARG` a `FROM` expands is global or it
+is nothing, and getting that wrong fails with `no FROM statement found`, which
+says nothing about the actual mistake. wow64 is the whole reason it is a build of ours
+and not the distribution's package — it runs 32-bit Windows code inside a
+64-bit unix process, so a box needs no lib32 glibc, no second Mesa for i686,
+and no second capture layer for 32-bit titles to be captured. The
+distribution's package is built without the flag, which is exactly why it
+depends on `lib32-*`.
+
+It costs about 1.4 GB of image, and it is the one thing in here that is
+payload-shaped: a compatibility layer for Windows games in an image that is
+otherwise indifferent to what it runs. The guest components stay indifferent
+regardless — none of them branches on it, and the init does not know it
+exists. What names it is the command a caller sends.
+
+`runtime_prod` from this Containerfile — tagged
+`ghcr.io/nestrilabs/nestri/base:latest` — is a complete, bootable guest image,
and also the shared foundation other builds start from: nesbox's jail image
(see `nesbox/build/`) extracts **Mesa** from it so the guest and host sides of
the virtio-gpu native-context protocol never drift apart. Only Mesa —
`virglrenderer` is the host half of that protocol and nesbox builds its own,
patched, from `nesbox/patches/`; nothing in this image carries it.
-Whatever layers Proton and the Steam client on top of it is a closed build
-outside this repo, by design — not something this repo names, links to, or
-depends on.
+## Two packages that look droppable and are not
-## The nesinit gap
+`llvm-libs` is 164 MB, the largest single thing in the image after Proton, and
+`lm_sensors` is only there because something links `libsensors`. Both look like
+leftovers of a Mesa configuration that has since been trimmed, and both have
+been checked rather than reasoned about: **`libgbm` links them**, and the
+compositor needs GBM. Trimming the Mesa build does not reach them.
-Nothing in this image starts a payload. The old `nestri-guest-hub` did that
-— per its own commit message, the open `neshub` *"loses `--proton`,
-`--steamclient-so`, `--root` and the game uid/gid, and no longer ends by
-handing the process to a controller... Deciding when the box is finished
-belongs to `nesinit`."* `nesinit` — the guest init/session-supervisor that
-would actually launch `nescope -- ` and power the box down — is
-referenced in commit messages and `nesbox/PROGRESS.md` but does not exist as
-open code in either repo.
+`lm_sensors` in particular was found the hard way. It used to arrive as a
+dependency of the distribution's Mesa package, and dropping that package took
+it away — leaving our own Mesa unable to resolve `libsensors.so.5`. Nothing in
+a package list says that; the check below is what said it.
-So `/etc/init.d/nescope` here starts nescope in **plain-compositor mode**
-(no command after `--`): it comes up, provides the Wayland/X11 environment,
-and waits for something to connect. That makes the image genuinely bootable
-and testable — `neshub`, `neswire`, `nescope` all come up under OpenRC and
-you get a real Wayland socket to point a client at — but running an actual
-game is still nesinit's job, and nesinit isn't part of this build. Whoever
-picks that up next should read `apps/neshub/README.md`'s "What it does not
-do" section first.
+## Proton has its own cadence, and its own Containerfile
+
+`make build` **pulls** Proton by tag; it does not build it. Building it takes
+hours and it changes only when its tag moves, so it is one image published
+once and copied into every guest image after that. `Containerfile.proton` is
+that build, and it lives here so the published tag stays reproducible from
+this tree rather than from somebody's laptop.
+
+```sh
+make proton-image # the current tag
+make PROTON_TAG=cachyos-11.1-20261115-native proton-image
+```
+
+**`PROTON_TAG` is the only thing to change.** The published version is derived
+from it in the `Makefile` rather than written a second time, because the two
+are the same number in two spellings — and an image whose name does not say
+which Proton is inside it is worse than no image. The `Containerfile`'s own
+`PROTON_IMAGE` default is a fallback for a bare container build; going through
+`make` is what keeps them in step.
+
+Its **context is `build/`**, not the repository root the guest build uses. All
+it needs is the two scripts beside it, and `Containerfile.proton.containerignore`
+keeps `output/` out of that context — a build context is copied before the
+first instruction runs, so without it every Proton build would begin by moving
+the last rootfs image it produced.
+
+Two things in the recipe are worth knowing before changing it:
+
+- **Fetch and build are separate layers on purpose.** The submodule checkout
+ runs well past ten minutes, and a build that fails on a flag or a missing
+ tool must not pay for that again. Keep anything that can fail *fast* in
+ `proton-build.sh`.
+- **`widl` is built by hand from the mingw-w64 release.** Without it autoconf
+ quietly sets `HAVE_WIDL` to false, vkd3d's public headers are never
+ generated, and the build dies an hour later on a missing header. Arch ships
+ `widl` only inside `wine`, which wants multilib — which is the thing
+ `--enable-wow64` exists to avoid.
+
+## There is no init system in here, and that is the design
+
+`nesinit` is PID 1. The image carries **no service manager, no init scripts,
+no `udev` and no systemd** — `systemd-libs` stays, because `dbus-daemon` and
+`wireplumber` link `libsystemd.so.0`, but nothing in the image can be PID 1
+except `nesinit`, and the build fails if anything that could be turns up.
+
+That is why this is plain Arch. The image used to be Artix, chosen for OpenRC,
+and every cost of that choice — no `eudev`, no `agetty-openrc`, `udev` being
+systemd's anyway, a runlevel edit not stopping a service another one still
+needs — was paid for an init system that is no longer here.
+
+**What replaced fourteen `rc-update` lines and nine init scripts:**
+
+| was | now |
+|---|---|
+| `devfs`, `dmesg`, `udev`, `udev-trigger` | `devtmpfs` makes the nodes; init sets the two modes that matter. The compositor takes input through Wayland and opens nothing `udev` provides |
+| `guest-net`, `hostname`, `xdg-runtime`, `cgroups` | init, before it dials out |
+| `dbus`, `dbus-session`, `pipewire`, `wireplumber`, `neshub`, `neswire` | a table compiled into `nesinit` |
+| `nescope` in the `default` runlevel | **not a service.** It wraps the workload and is started by a launch, with that launch's geometry, and dies with it |
+| `agetty` on `hvc0` | nothing. See below |
+| `/etc/fstab` | init's own mounts, and shares named in the boot descriptor |
+
+**A box is launched into, not booted into something.** Init mounts what the
+descriptor names, brings the table up, says it is ready, and then takes
+commands — so an image on its own runs nothing at all, which is the point:
+this image is payload-independent and there is no payload in it.
+
+### Getting into a guest that will not boot
+
+`init=/bin/bash` on the kernel command line. Nothing in the image offers a
+login prompt — there is no getty in either flavour — and that is cheaper than
+carrying one: `nesinit` is an ordinary program, so from that shell you can run
+it by hand and watch it fail. `make build-debug` adds `vulkaninfo` and friends
+and gives root a password for `su`; it does not add a console.
+
+**A shell is not a booted box, and the difference bites immediately.** Nothing
+the init does has happened: the root is read-only, `/run` and `/tmp` are still
+directories on it rather than tmpfs, `/run/user/1000` is unwritable, and the
+hostname is `(none)` rather than `nesbox` — which is the quickest way to tell
+the two states apart. A compositor started in that shell fails on its own
+socket, and the error names the runtime directory rather than the cause.
+
+So run `nesinit` first. It mounts, prepares the directories, brings the
+services up, then fails to reach a control channel that is not there and
+exits — **leaving everything it prepared behind**, which is exactly what makes
+the hand-run useful. Then start what you came to debug.
+
+It is safe to run outside a box, and that took fixing: the shutdown path signals
+every process it may signal and then powers the machine off, which is right for
+PID 1 of a box and catastrophic anywhere else. Both steps are refused when it is
+not PID 1, and it says so rather than doing it quietly.
+
+If you would rather not run it at all, the two mounts it does that a compositor
+needs are:
+
+```sh
+mount -t tmpfs -o mode=1777,size=64m tmpfs /tmp
+mount -t tmpfs -o mode=755,size=32m tmpfs /run
+mkdir -p /run/user/1000 && chown 1000:1000 /run/user/1000 && chmod 0700 /run/user/1000
+```
+
+Making `/run/user/1000` writable in the *image* does not help, and is worth
+saying because it is the obvious first thing to try: before the init runs, the
+directory is on a read-only root, so its ownership is not what stops a write;
+after the init runs, a fresh tmpfs is mounted over `/run` and the image's copy
+of the directory is hidden underneath it.
+
+The one thing this does not reach is a failure *before* the shell. If that
+happens the evidence is on `console=hvc0` and nowhere else.
+
+### Two build-time checks worth knowing about
+
+Both exist because the failure they catch is invisible at runtime rather than
+loud, which is the same reason the old build checked its `conf.d` files:
+
+- **No hook may point at a program that is not in the image.** Removing
+ systemd removes the script `dbus-reload.hook` calls, and a leftover hook
+ produces `error: command failed to execute correctly` on every future pacman
+ transaction — indistinguishable, in a log, from something that matters.
+- **Nothing `nesinit` will look for may be missing.** Its service table is
+ compiled in, so an absent `dbus-daemon` is not a build error by itself; it
+ is a service that does not come up in a box somebody is waiting on.
## Network defaults
-`/etc/init.d/guest-net` reads `nestri.ip=`/`nestri.gw=` off the kernel
-command line, falling back to `172.30.0.2/24` via `172.30.0.1` if neither is
-set — nesbox's own default tap addressing. Keep these in step if that
-changes on the nesbox side.
+`nesinit` reads `nestri.ip=`/`nestri.gw=` off the kernel command line,
+falling back to `172.30.0.2/24` via `172.30.0.1` if neither is set — the
+host's own default tap addressing. Keep these in step if that changes on the
+host side. A box started with no network device at all is a valid box and
+boots without one.
+
+The address is a per-boot parameter rather than an image setting because the
+alternative makes every box built from this image the same host on the
+network, and two of them collide the moment they run together. Same reasoning
+for `/etc/machine-id`, which is a symlink into a tmpfs that init fills at
+boot — the previous image baked one in, so every box built from it was the
+same machine to anything that asked.
+
+This is also the one thing in the image that keeps `iproute2` installed:
+init runs `ip` rather than talking netlink, which is a hundred lines of
+`unsafe` saved for an interface configured once.
diff --git a/build/etc/conf.d/agetty.hvc0.debug b/build/etc/conf.d/agetty.hvc0.debug
deleted file mode 100644
index 79dc110f..00000000
--- a/build/etc/conf.d/agetty.hvc0.debug
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-baud="115200"
-term_type="vt100"
-agetty_options="--autologin root --noclear"
diff --git a/build/etc/conf.d/agetty.hvc0.prod b/build/etc/conf.d/agetty.hvc0.prod
deleted file mode 100644
index 8a9020af..00000000
--- a/build/etc/conf.d/agetty.hvc0.prod
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-baud="115200"
-term_type="vt100"
-agetty_options="--noclear"
diff --git a/build/etc/conf.d/nescope b/build/etc/conf.d/nescope
deleted file mode 100644
index 3ae9f1d2..00000000
--- a/build/etc/conf.d/nescope
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-# Configuration for nescope, the headless compositor.
-#
-# Sources nestri-user-env rather than symlinking it, for the same reason
-# neshub and neswire do.
-. /etc/conf.d/nestri-user-env
-
-RUST_LOG="${RUST_LOG:-nescope=info}"
-export RUST_LOG
-
-# Started in plain-compositor mode by /etc/init.d/nescope (no command after
-# `--`): it comes up and waits for something to connect rather than wrapping
-# a payload. Starting an actual payload — a game, a desktop — is nesinit's
-# job, and nesinit is not open code yet. See build/README.md.
-NESCOPE_SOCKET="${NESCOPE_SOCKET:-nescope-0}"
-NESCOPE_INPUT_IPC="${NESCOPE_INPUT_IPC:-/tmp/nestri-input.sock}"
-export NESCOPE_SOCKET NESCOPE_INPUT_IPC
diff --git a/build/etc/conf.d/neshub b/build/etc/conf.d/neshub
deleted file mode 100644
index 96018062..00000000
--- a/build/etc/conf.d/neshub
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-# Configuration for neshub, the media hub.
-#
-# Not a symlink to nestri-user-env like pipewire and friends: neshub wants a
-# setting of its own, so it sources that file rather than replacing it — same
-# pattern as nescope and neswire below.
-. /etc/conf.d/nestri-user-env
-
-# What neshub logs, and nothing else.
-#
-# Scoped and exported for the reason spelled out at length in the old
-# nestri-guest-hub conf.d this replaces: an unscoped `RUST_LOG=info` turns on
-# every crate linked in, iroh included, and OpenRC hands a service its own
-# environment, not the shell's locals — an unexported variable here goes
-# nowhere.
-#
-# Overridable, so a bad boot can be re-run with more without a rebuild.
-RUST_LOG="${RUST_LOG:-neshub=info}"
-export RUST_LOG
diff --git a/build/etc/conf.d/nestri-user-env b/build/etc/conf.d/nestri-user-env
deleted file mode 100644
index ccde8729..00000000
--- a/build/etc/conf.d/nestri-user-env
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-HOME="/home/nestri"
-USER="nestri"
-LOGNAME="nestri"
-XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000"
-XDG_CONFIG_HOME="/home/nestri/.config"
-XDG_DATA_HOME="/home/nestri/.local/share"
-XDG_CACHE_HOME="/home/nestri/.cache"
-XDG_STATE_HOME="/home/nestri/.local/state"
-XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/local/share:/usr/share"
-XDG_SESSION_TYPE="wayland"
-XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP="nestri"
-DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus"
-
-# Driver forcing — currently off, in both copies. Kept, commented, because
-# the reasoning still applies if it is ever needed again: capture happens
-# through a Vulkan layer, so a process reaching the GPU via native OpenGL
-# would render fine and capture nothing, and zink is what makes such a
-# process capturable at all. Nothing has needed it so far.
-#
-# /etc/profile.d/nestri-env.sh carries the same block, also commented, and
-# only runs for login shells — nothing here is one, every service below runs
-# from OpenRC. If these are ever re-enabled, re-enable both: one copy on and
-# one off means services and shells reach the GPU by different paths.
-#__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME="mesa"
-#MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE="zink"
-#GALLIUM_DRIVER="zink"
-
-nestri_export_env() {
- export HOME USER LOGNAME
- export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_STATE_HOME
- export XDG_DATA_DIRS XDG_SESSION_TYPE XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP
- export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
- #export __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE GALLIUM_DRIVER
-}
diff --git a/build/etc/conf.d/neswire b/build/etc/conf.d/neswire
deleted file mode 100644
index 517d42b2..00000000
--- a/build/etc/conf.d/neswire
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-# Configuration for the audio wire.
-#
-# Not a symlink to nestri-user-env like pipewire and friends, for the same
-# reason neshub is not: it needs a setting of its own -- and it still wants
-# that file's environment, so it sources it rather than replacing it.
-. /etc/conf.d/nestri-user-env
-
-# What neswire logs, and nothing else.
-#
-# Without this neswire is *silent* -- it starts, fails, and exits leaving an
-# empty log, which is indistinguishable from never having been started at
-# all. That ambiguity is the reason this file exists.
-#
-# Scoped, and `export`ed, for the reasons spelled out at length in
-# conf.d/neshub: an unscoped `info` turns on every linked crate, and an
-# unexported one reaches the service's shell and not the service.
-#
-# Overridable, so a bad boot can be re-run with more without a rebuild.
-RUST_LOG="${RUST_LOG:-neswire=info}"
-export RUST_LOG
-
-# neswire's own defaults, spelled out rather than inherited.
-#
-# All four are clap args with defaults (`neswire --help`), so the service
-# works without them. They are here because the IPC path is a contract with
-# neshub -- it reads this socket -- and a contract that lives only inside two
-# binaries' default values is one nobody can check.
-NESWIRE_IPC_PATH="/tmp/nestri-audio.sock"
-NESWIRE_CHANNELS="2"
-NESWIRE_PACKET_DURATION_MS="5"
-NESWIRE_BITRATE_PER_CHANNEL="64"
-export NESWIRE_IPC_PATH NESWIRE_CHANNELS NESWIRE_PACKET_DURATION_MS NESWIRE_BITRATE_PER_CHANNEL
diff --git a/build/etc/fstab b/build/etc/fstab
deleted file mode 100644
index b183fda8..00000000
--- a/build/etc/fstab
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-# `ro`, matching how a box is actually started: nesbox passes `ro` on the
-# kernel command line and marks the root device `is_read_only: true` (see
-# nesbox's examples/vm.json), so the virtio-blk device refuses writes at the
-# device level. Saying `rw` here does not make it writable — it only asks
-# OpenRC's `root` service to attempt a remount that the device must reject.
-# Everything a running box writes to is a tmpfs or a share below.
-/dev/vda / ext4 ro,relatime 0 1
-devtmpfs /dev devtmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0
-proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
-sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
-tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,size=64M 0 0
-tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,size=32M,mode=0755 0 0
-tmpfs /var/log tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,size=16M 0 0
-# POSIX shared memory. devtmpfs does not provide it and nothing else mounts it,
-# so without this entry /dev/shm does not exist at all and `shm_open` fails.
-#
-# PipeWire itself gets by: it allocates buffers with memfd_create and only
-# falls back to /dev/shm. Kept as a precaution for anything else that uses
-# POSIX shm/semaphores directly — Proton is the known example, and it is not
-# part of this image yet (see build/README.md), but a failure here is silent
-# rather than fatal, so it costs nothing to have ready.
-#
-# `nosuid,nodev` and a size cap because everything a game can write to should
-# have both.
-tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,size=256M 0 0
-# The guest's logs, on a host directory that outlives the VM.
-#
-# Here rather than mounted by a service, because the failures worth reading
-# are the ones that happen *before* anything else has mounted something — a
-# log directory that appears only after a successful start cannot record an
-# unsuccessful one. The tag is fixed by nessh, so plain fstab works.
-#
-# `nofail` because a VM started without the share still has to boot: that is
-# how somebody gets a shell to find out why it has no share.
-logs /nestri/logs virtiofs rw,nofail 0 0
diff --git a/build/etc/init.d/dbus-session b/build/etc/init.d/dbus-session
deleted file mode 100644
index 833e5810..00000000
--- a/build/etc/init.d/dbus-session
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-#!/sbin/openrc-run
-
-description="D-Bus session bus for nestri user"
-
-nestri_export_env
-
-command="/usr/bin/dbus-daemon"
-command_args="--session --address=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus --nofork --nopidfile --print-address"
-command_user="nestri:nestri"
-command_background="yes"
-pidfile="/run/nestri/dbus-session.pid"
-
-depend() {
- need xdg-runtime dbus
- before pipewire wireplumber
-}
-
-start_pre() {
- checkpath -d -m 0755 -o "nestri:nestri" /run/nestri
- if [ -e "/run/user/1000/bus" ]; then
- ewarn "Removing stale bus socket"
- rm -f "/run/user/1000/bus"
- fi
-}
-
-start_post() {
- local i=0
- while [ ! -S /run/user/1000/bus ] && [ $i -lt 20 ]; do
- sleep 0.1
- i=$((i+1))
- done
- [ -S /run/user/1000/bus ] || { eerror "Bus didn't appear"; return 1; }
-}
diff --git a/build/etc/init.d/dbus-system b/build/etc/init.d/dbus-system
deleted file mode 100644
index a79a25fb..00000000
--- a/build/etc/init.d/dbus-system
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-#!/sbin/openrc-run
-
-description="D-Bus system message bus"
-
-command="/usr/bin/dbus-daemon"
-command_args="--system --nofork --nopidfile"
-command_background="yes"
-pidfile="/run/dbus/dbus.pid"
-
-depend() {
- need localmount xdg-runtime
- before pipewire
-}
-
-start_pre() {
- checkpath -d -m 0755 -o root:root /run/dbus
- checkpath -d -m 0755 -o messagebus:messagebus /var/run/dbus 2>/dev/null || true
- dbus-uuidgen --ensure=/var/lib/dbus/machine-id
-}
diff --git a/build/etc/init.d/guest-net b/build/etc/init.d/guest-net
deleted file mode 100644
index 21aa178a..00000000
--- a/build/etc/init.d/guest-net
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,92 +0,0 @@
-#!/sbin/openrc-run
-
-description="Configure the guest's network to match the host's tap"
-
-# Overridden from /etc/conf.d/guest-net if present. These defaults match
-# nesbox's own defaults; if you change the `network` section in the VM's
-# JSON, change these to match.
-: ${GUEST_IFACE:=eth0}
-: ${GUEST_IP:=172.30.0.2}
-: ${GUEST_PREFIX:=24}
-: ${GUEST_GATEWAY:=172.30.0.1}
-
-depend() {
- need localmount
- provide net
- keyword -shutdown
-}
-
-# Read one `nestri.=` from the kernel command line.
-#
-# The address has to come from somewhere per-boot, because the alternative --
-# baking it into the image -- makes every guest built from that image the
-# same host on the network. Two sandboxes then collide the moment they run
-# together.
-#
-# `nestri.`-prefixed rather than the kernel's own `ip=`: that one needs
-# CONFIG_IP_PNP and exists to configure NFS root, and the prefix makes it
-# obvious whose parameter this is.
-cmdline_value() {
- local key="$1" word
- for word in $(cat /proc/cmdline 2>/dev/null); do
- case "$word" in
- "nestri.${key}="*) printf '%s' "${word#nestri.${key}=}"; return 0 ;;
- esac
- done
- return 1
-}
-
-start() {
- ebegin "Bringing up loopback"
- ip link set lo up
- eend $?
-
- # The command line wins over conf.d when it says anything, and conf.d is
- # the fallback so a hand-written VM config with no parameters keeps
- # working -- which is how a guest gets debugged.
- local source="/etc/conf.d/guest-net"
- local cmdline_ip
- if cmdline_ip="$(cmdline_value ip)"; then
- # Accepts address/prefix; a bare address keeps the configured prefix
- # rather than guessing one.
- case "$cmdline_ip" in
- */*)
- GUEST_IP="${cmdline_ip%%/*}"
- GUEST_PREFIX="${cmdline_ip##*/}"
- ;;
- *) GUEST_IP="$cmdline_ip" ;;
- esac
- source="kernel command line"
- fi
-
- local cmdline_gw
- if cmdline_gw="$(cmdline_value gw)"; then
- GUEST_GATEWAY="$cmdline_gw"
- source="kernel command line"
- fi
-
- # The VM may have been started with no network device at all, which is a
- # perfectly good configuration. Do not fail the boot over it.
- if [ ! -e "/sys/class/net/${GUEST_IFACE}" ]; then
- einfo "no ${GUEST_IFACE}: this VM has no network device"
- return 0
- fi
-
- # Says which source won, because "the address is wrong" and "the address
- # came from somewhere unexpected" look identical from inside the guest.
- ebegin "Configuring ${GUEST_IFACE} as ${GUEST_IP}/${GUEST_PREFIX} via ${GUEST_GATEWAY} (from ${source})"
- # `replace` rather than `add` so a restart is not an error.
- ip link set "${GUEST_IFACE}" up &&
- ip addr replace "${GUEST_IP}/${GUEST_PREFIX}" dev "${GUEST_IFACE}" &&
- ip route replace default via "${GUEST_GATEWAY}" dev "${GUEST_IFACE}"
- eend $? "could not configure ${GUEST_IFACE}"
-}
-
-stop() {
- if [ -e "/sys/class/net/${GUEST_IFACE}" ]; then
- ebegin "Bringing down ${GUEST_IFACE}"
- ip link set "${GUEST_IFACE}" down
- eend 0
- fi
- return 0
-}
diff --git a/build/etc/init.d/nescope b/build/etc/init.d/nescope
deleted file mode 100644
index 9c916c00..00000000
--- a/build/etc/init.d/nescope
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-#!/sbin/openrc-run
-
-description="Nestri headless compositor"
-
-nestri_export_env
-
-: "${NESTRI_UID:=1000}"
-: "${NESTRI_USER:=nestri}"
-
-command="/usr/bin/nescope"
-# No command after `--`: plain-compositor mode. nescope comes up and waits
-# for something to connect rather than wrapping a payload — starting one is
-# nesinit's job, and nesinit is not open code yet. See build/README.md.
-command_user="${NESTRI_USER}:${NESTRI_USER}"
-command_background="yes"
-pidfile="/run/nestri/nescope.pid"
-output_log="/nestri/logs/nescope.log"
-error_log="/nestri/logs/nescope.log"
-respawn="yes"
-respawn_delay="2"
-respawn_max="2"
-
-export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/${NESTRI_UID}"
-
-depend() {
- need xdg-runtime
- use neshub
- after xdg-runtime
-}
-
-start_pre() {
- checkpath -d -m 0755 -o "${NESTRI_USER}:${NESTRI_USER}" /run/nestri
-}
diff --git a/build/etc/init.d/neshub b/build/etc/init.d/neshub
deleted file mode 100644
index e408c22b..00000000
--- a/build/etc/init.d/neshub
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-#!/sbin/openrc-run
-
-description="Nestri media hub"
-
-nestri_export_env
-
-: "${NESTRI_UID:=1000}"
-: "${NESTRI_USER:=nestri}"
-
-command="/usr/bin/neshub"
-# Unprivileged. The old nestri-guest-hub ran as root and mounted the
-# session's filesystem itself; the open neshub does neither — per its own
-# README it only muxes the Unix sockets the other components dial into one
-# QUIC endpoint. Whatever ends up owning session mounts (nesinit, presumably)
-# is a separate, still-closed piece.
-command_user="${NESTRI_USER}:${NESTRI_USER}"
-command_background="yes"
-pidfile="/run/nestri/neshub.pid"
-
-# Where neshub's output goes. /nestri/logs is a virtiofs share mounted from
-# /etc/fstab at boot, before this service starts, so a hub that fails
-# immediately still leaves a record, and the record survives the VM.
-output_log="/nestri/logs/neshub.log"
-error_log="/nestri/logs/neshub.log"
-respawn="yes"
-respawn_delay="2"
-respawn_max="2" # NO infinite — if it fails, it fails for a reason
-
-export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/${NESTRI_UID}"
-
-depend() {
- need xdg-runtime
- use net
- after xdg-runtime
-}
-
-start_pre() {
- checkpath -d -m 0755 -o "${NESTRI_USER}:${NESTRI_USER}" /run/nestri
-}
diff --git a/build/etc/init.d/neswire b/build/etc/init.d/neswire
deleted file mode 100644
index 2c61af9e..00000000
--- a/build/etc/init.d/neswire
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,93 +0,0 @@
-#!/sbin/openrc-run
-
-description="Nestri pipewire audio sink"
-
-nestri_export_env
-
-: "${NESTRI_UID:=1000}"
-: "${NESTRI_USER:=nestri}"
-
-command="/usr/bin/neswire"
-command_user="${NESTRI_USER}:${NESTRI_USER}"
-command_background="yes"
-pidfile="/run/nestri/neswire.pid"
-output_log="/nestri/logs/neswire.log"
-error_log="/nestri/logs/neswire.log"
-respawn="yes"
-respawn_delay="2"
-respawn_max="2"
-
-export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/${NESTRI_UID}"
-export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:path=/run/user/${NESTRI_UID}/bus"
-
-depend() {
- # wireplumber is a hard dependency, not a nicety: start_post below pins
- # the default sink through the `default` metadata object, and
- # WirePlumber is what owns that object. Started concurrently, the pin
- # lands in an object pw-metadata created itself, which is destroyed the
- # moment it exits.
- need xdg-runtime dbus dbus-session pipewire wireplumber
- use neshub
- after pipewire wireplumber neshub
-}
-
-start_pre() {
- checkpath -d -m 0755 -o "${NESTRI_USER}:${NESTRI_USER}" /run/nestri
-}
-
-# Point the graph at neswire's sink, by name.
-#
-# `neswire` registers itself as media.class = Audio/Sink, node.name = neswire
-# ("Neswire Cloud Gaming Audio Sink"). With the hardware monitors off it is
-# the only sink, so WirePlumber's find-best hook should land on it anyway --
-# this makes it explicit rather than a consequence of there being nothing
-# else, so adding a second sink later cannot silently steal the default.
-#
-# `default.configured.audio.sink` is the metadata WirePlumber's find-selected
-# hook reads, and it takes a name; `wpctl set-default` takes a numeric object
-# id that changes every boot, which is why this uses pw-metadata instead.
-#
-# Not fatal if it fails: find-best still has one candidate. A game playing
-# into the wrong sink is silent, and a warning here is the only place that
-# would say so.
-start_post() {
- local i=0
- while [ $i -lt 50 ]; do
- pw-dump 2>/dev/null | grep -q '"node.name": "neswire"' && break
- sleep 0.1
- i=$((i+1))
- done
- if ! pw-dump 2>/dev/null | grep -q '"node.name": "neswire"'; then
- ewarn "neswire started but its sink never appeared in the graph"
- return 0
- fi
-
- # Wait for WirePlumber to own the `default` metadata before writing to it.
- #
- # `need wireplumber` only guarantees its script returned, not that it has
- # built its objects. Writing too early is silently useless rather than an
- # error: pw-metadata creates the object, sets the key, exits 0, and the
- # object dies with the client. So wait for the object to exist, and say
- # so if it never does.
- i=0
- while [ $i -lt 50 ]; do
- pw-metadata -n default >/dev/null 2>&1 && break
- sleep 0.1
- i=$((i+1))
- done
- if ! pw-metadata -n default >/dev/null 2>&1; then
- ewarn "no 'default' metadata: WirePlumber is not running, sink not pinned"
- return 0
- fi
-
- pw-metadata -n default 0 default.configured.audio.sink '{ "name": "neswire" }' \
- >/dev/null 2>&1
-
- # Read it back. A write that did not stick is the failure this whole
- # sequence exists to catch, and it is invisible unless checked.
- if pw-metadata -n default 2>/dev/null | grep -q "neswire"; then
- einfo "default sink pinned to neswire"
- else
- ewarn "pinned neswire as default sink but it did not stick"
- fi
-}
diff --git a/build/etc/init.d/pipewire b/build/etc/init.d/pipewire
deleted file mode 100644
index e50ded6e..00000000
--- a/build/etc/init.d/pipewire
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-#!/sbin/openrc-run
-
-description="PipeWire multimedia daemon (system mode for nestri)"
-
-nestri_export_env
-
-: "${NESTRI_UID:=1000}"
-: "${NESTRI_USER:=nestri}"
-
-command="/usr/bin/pipewire"
-command_user="${NESTRI_USER}:${NESTRI_USER}"
-command_background="yes"
-pidfile="/run/pipewire/pipewire.pid"
-
-export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/${NESTRI_UID}"
-export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:path=/run/user/${NESTRI_UID}/bus"
-
-depend() {
- need xdg-runtime dbus
- use dbus
-}
-
-start_pre() {
- checkpath -d -m 0755 -o "${NESTRI_USER}:${NESTRI_USER}" /run/pipewire
-}
-
-# `need pipewire` only waits for this script to return, and with
-# command_background that is the moment start-stop-daemon forks -- not the
-# moment PipeWire is accepting connections. With rc_parallel="YES" every
-# client (wireplumber, neswire) then races the socket and a client that
-# loses simply exits.
-#
-# dbus-session already solved exactly this for the bus socket. Same shape
-# here.
-start_post() {
- local i=0
- while [ ! -S "/run/user/${NESTRI_UID}/pipewire-0" ] && [ $i -lt 50 ]; do
- sleep 0.1
- i=$((i+1))
- done
- [ -S "/run/user/${NESTRI_UID}/pipewire-0" ] || {
- eerror "PipeWire socket never appeared"
- return 1
- }
-}
diff --git a/build/etc/init.d/wireplumber b/build/etc/init.d/wireplumber
deleted file mode 100644
index 1c71732a..00000000
--- a/build/etc/init.d/wireplumber
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-#!/sbin/openrc-run
-
-description="WirePlumber session manager for PipeWire"
-
-nestri_export_env
-
-: "${NESTRI_UID:=1000}"
-: "${NESTRI_USER:=nestri}"
-
-command="/usr/bin/wireplumber"
-command_user="${NESTRI_USER}:${NESTRI_USER}"
-command_background="yes"
-pidfile="/run/pipewire/wireplumber.pid"
-
-export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/${NESTRI_UID}"
-
-depend() {
- need pipewire
- after pipewire
-}
diff --git a/build/etc/init.d/xdg-runtime b/build/etc/init.d/xdg-runtime
deleted file mode 100644
index 8d271047..00000000
--- a/build/etc/init.d/xdg-runtime
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-#!/sbin/openrc-run
-
-description="Create runtime directories (XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, X11 socket dir..)"
-
-NESTRI_UID="${NESTRI_UID:-1000}"
-NESTRI_USER="${NESTRI_USER:-nestri}"
-
-depend() {
- need localmount
- before dbus pipewire
-}
-
-start() {
- ebegin "Preparing runtime directories"
-
- if ! getent passwd "${NESTRI_USER}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
- eerror "User ${NESTRI_USER} does not exist"
- return 1
- fi
-
- # Per-user XDG runtime dir
- mkdir -p "/run/user/${NESTRI_UID}"
- chown "${NESTRI_USER}:${NESTRI_USER}" "/run/user/${NESTRI_UID}"
- chmod 0700 "/run/user/${NESTRI_UID}"
-
- # X11 socket dir (Xwayland + any X clients expect this)
- mkdir -p /tmp/.X11-unix
- chown root:root /tmp/.X11-unix
- chmod 1777 /tmp/.X11-unix
-
- # ICE socket dir - some toolkits look for it
- mkdir -p /tmp/.ICE-unix
- chown root:root /tmp/.ICE-unix
- chmod 1777 /tmp/.ICE-unix
-
- eend $?
-}
-
-stop() {
- ebegin "Removing runtime directories"
- rm -rf "/run/user/${NESTRI_UID}"
- # Don't rm /tmp/.X11-unix on stop - other things may be using it
- eend 0
-}
diff --git a/build/etc/profile.d/nestri-env.sh b/build/etc/profile.d/nestri-env.sh
index fa0a8590..61f69adc 100644
--- a/build/etc/profile.d/nestri-env.sh
+++ b/build/etc/profile.d/nestri-env.sh
@@ -14,14 +14,22 @@ if [ "$(id -u)" = "1000" ]; then
export XDG_SESSION_TYPE="${XDG_SESSION_TYPE:-wayland}"
export XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP="${XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP:-nestri}"
- # Ensure proper VAAPI driver is used
- #export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME="radeonsi"
-
- # Force zink usage for OpenGL -> Vulkan translation
- #export __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=mesa
- #export MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink
- #export GALLIUM_DRIVER=zink
# Ensure standard XDG dirs exist
mkdir -p "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}" "${XDG_DATA_HOME}" "${XDG_CACHE_HOME}" "${XDG_STATE_HOME}" 2>/dev/null || true
fi
+
+# OpenGL -> Vulkan, for anybody who reaches a shell in here.
+#
+# Outside the uid test above on purpose, and duplicated from the init on
+# purpose. This file is only ever read by a person who got a shell in a box --
+# nothing a box runs is started from a login, so every service and every
+# workload is exec'd with a cleared environment and never sees this. The init
+# sets the same three for what it starts.
+#
+# It is here so that a debug shell renders the way a session does. A shell that
+# silently has no GL driver is how somebody concludes the image is broken while
+# the image is fine.
+export __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=mesa
+export MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink
+export GALLIUM_DRIVER=zink
diff --git a/build/etc/rc.conf b/build/etc/rc.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 5fc4c575..00000000
--- a/build/etc/rc.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-# Nestri rootfs OpenRC config
-
-rc_parallel="YES"
-rc_depend_strict="NO"
-rc_interactive="NO"
-rc_shell_timeout="0"
-# Every service's start/fail line, on the host directory that outlives the VM.
-#
-# Without this a guest nobody can log into reports nothing about its own boot:
-# a service that was skipped because a dependency failed looks exactly like a
-# service that was never registered. /nestri/logs is a virtiofs share, so the
-# record survives the guest — see the fstab entry below.
-rc_logger="YES"
-rc_log_path="/nestri/logs/rc.log"
-rc_verbose="NO"
-
-# cgroup v2
-rc_cgroup_mode="unified"
-
-# Don't bother trying to set hostname twice
-rc_hotplug="!net.*"
-
-# Faster sulogin behavior on emergency
-rc_shell="/bin/sh"
-
-# Default umask
-umask 022
diff --git a/build/scripts/mkimage.sh b/build/scripts/mkimage.sh
index 8baf62d5..2819d439 100644
--- a/build/scripts/mkimage.sh
+++ b/build/scripts/mkimage.sh
@@ -15,14 +15,14 @@ set -euo pipefail
IMAGE="${1:?usage: mkimage.sh [size]}"
OUT="${2:?usage: mkimage.sh [size]}"
-SIZE="${3:-5G}"
+SIZE="${3:-3G}"
if [[ "$(id -u)" -eq 0 ]]; then
echo "mkimage.sh should run as yourself, not root/sudo — see the comment at the top of this script" >&2
exit 1
fi
-CONTAINER_RT="$(command -v docker || command -v podman || true)"
+CONTAINER_RT="$(command -v podman || command -v docker || true)"
[[ -n "$CONTAINER_RT" ]] || { echo "Neither docker nor podman found in PATH" >&2; exit 1; }
sudo -v # cache credentials once, rather than prompting mid-pipeline
diff --git a/build/scripts/proton-build.sh b/build/scripts/proton-build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..2e576157
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/scripts/proton-build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Builds proton-cachyos from the tree proton-fetch.sh laid down. Container-only.
+#
+# The one thing that matters here is --enable-wow64: it builds wine so that
+# 32-bit Windows code runs inside a 64-bit unix process, thunking down to the
+# 64-bit host libraries. Without it, Proton needs a complete 32-bit host stack —
+# lib32 glibc, a second Mesa built for i686, and a second nescapture layer,
+# because a 32-bit game would load the 32-bit Vulkan loader and our 64-bit
+# capture layer would be invisible to it. With it, none of that exists.
+#
+# The cost is that the distro package cannot be used: proton-cachyos-native is
+# packaged without the flag, which is exactly why it depends on lib32-*.
+set -euo pipefail
+
+: "${GECKO_VER:?}"
+: "${MONO_VER:?}"
+
+JOBS="${JOBS:-$(nproc)}"
+BUILD_NAME="proton-cachyos"
+SRC_DIR="/build/proton-cachyos"
+BUILD_DIR="/build/build"
+OUT_DIR="/artifacts/proton/usr/share/steam/compatibilitytools.d/${BUILD_NAME}"
+
+[[ -d "${SRC_DIR}" ]] || { echo "no source tree — proton-fetch.sh did not run"; exit 1; }
+
+# ── Toolchain wrappers ──────────────────────────────────
+# Proton's build calls the compiler by GNU triplet. Arch's gcc does not install
+# under those names, so stand in for them. The i686 set is generated too: with
+# wow64 nothing should reach for it, and if something does, failing on a missing
+# 32-bit header beats silently building a 32-bit unix library we then have to
+# ship libraries for.
+WRAP=/build/wrappers
+rm -rf "$WRAP" && mkdir -p "$WRAP"
+_wrappers() {
+ local arch="$1" gccflag="$2" ldflag="$3" asflag="$4" stripfmt="$5"
+ local l t
+ for l in ar ranlib nm; do
+ ln -sf "/usr/bin/gcc-${l}" "${WRAP}/${arch}-pc-linux-gnu-${l}"
+ done
+ for t in gcc g++; do
+ printf '#!/usr/bin/bash\n/usr/bin/%s %s "$@"\n' "$t" "$gccflag" \
+ > "${WRAP}/${arch}-pc-linux-gnu-${t}"
+ chmod 755 "${WRAP}/${arch}-pc-linux-gnu-${t}"
+ done
+ printf '#!/usr/bin/bash\n/usr/bin/ld %s "$@"\n' "$ldflag" > "${WRAP}/${arch}-pc-linux-gnu-ld"
+ printf '#!/usr/bin/bash\n/usr/bin/as %s "$@"\n' "$asflag" > "${WRAP}/${arch}-pc-linux-gnu-as"
+ printf '#!/usr/bin/bash\n/usr/bin/strip -F %s "$@"\n' "$stripfmt" > "${WRAP}/${arch}-pc-linux-gnu-strip"
+ chmod 755 "${WRAP}/${arch}-pc-linux-gnu-"{ld,as,strip}
+}
+_wrappers x86_64 "-m64" "-melf_x86_64" "--64" "elf64-x86-64"
+_wrappers i686 "-m32" "-melf_i386" "--32" "elf32-i386"
+export PATH="${WRAP}:${PATH}"
+
+# ── Build ───────────────────────────────────────────────
+# -march=nocona matches the distro packaging: Proton has to run on whatever CPU
+# the guest is given, and the VMM does not promise a feature level.
+export CFLAGS="-O3 -march=nocona -mtune=core-avx2"
+export CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
+export RUSTFLAGS="-C opt-level=3 -C target-cpu=nocona"
+export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed"
+export RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN=stable
+
+mkdir -p "${BUILD_DIR}"
+cd "${BUILD_DIR}"
+
+ROOTLESS_CONTAINER="" \
+"${SRC_DIR}/configure.sh" \
+ --container-engine="none" \
+ --proton-sdk-image="" \
+ --build-name="${BUILD_NAME}" \
+ --without-extras=all \
+ --without-vklayers=all \
+ --without-steamrt-depends \
+ --without-tts \
+ --without-nvidia-libs \
+ --enable-wow64
+
+# The top-level make is serial by design; SUBJOBS is what it hands to each
+# component's build.
+SUBJOBS="${JOBS}" make -j1 dist
+
+# ── Install ─────────────────────────────────────────────
+mkdir -p "${OUT_DIR}"
+cp -a "${BUILD_DIR}/dist/." "${OUT_DIR}/"
+
+# Debug symbols in the bundled PE runtimes are dead weight in a guest image.
+cd "${OUT_DIR}/files"
+find "share/wine/gecko/wine-gecko-${GECKO_VER}-x86" -name '*.dll' -o -name '*.exe' 2>/dev/null \
+ | xargs -r i686-w64-mingw32-strip --strip-debug 2>/dev/null || true
+find "share/wine/gecko/wine-gecko-${GECKO_VER}-x86_64" -name '*.dll' -o -name '*.exe' 2>/dev/null \
+ | xargs -r x86_64-w64-mingw32-strip --strip-debug 2>/dev/null || true
+find "share/wine/mono/wine-mono-${MONO_VER}" -name '*.dll' -o -name '*.exe' 2>/dev/null \
+ | xargs -r i686-w64-mingw32-strip --strip-debug 2>/dev/null || true
+
+rm -rf "${BUILD_DIR}"
+echo "proton: installed to ${OUT_DIR}"
diff --git a/build/scripts/proton-fetch.sh b/build/scripts/proton-fetch.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..3b0cfad4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/scripts/proton-fetch.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Fetches proton-cachyos' source and its bundled runtimes. Container-only.
+#
+# Deliberately its own script, and its own layer: the submodule checkout runs
+# well past ten minutes, and it must not be redone every time a build flag or a
+# missing dependency changes. Keep everything that can fail *fast* in
+# proton-build.sh instead.
+set -euo pipefail
+
+: "${PROTON_GIT:?}"
+: "${PROTON_TAG:?}"
+: "${GECKO_VER:?}"
+: "${MONO_VER:?}"
+: "${XALIA_VER:?}"
+
+SRC_DIR="/build/proton-cachyos"
+
+git clone --branch "${PROTON_TAG}" --depth=1 "${PROTON_GIT}" "${SRC_DIR}"
+cd "${SRC_DIR}"
+# Relative submodule paths resolve against origin, so it has to be the real URL
+# even though we cloned by tag.
+git remote set-url origin "${PROTON_GIT}"
+# No --depth here: submodules are pinned to commits that are often not a branch
+# tip. --filter=tree:0 keeps the download down instead.
+git submodule update --init --filter=tree:0 --recursive
+
+# Still needed with wow64: these are PE-side, and a 32-bit Windows program wants
+# the 32-bit gecko and mono regardless of how wine is built.
+mkdir -p contrib
+for url in \
+ "https://dl.winehq.org/wine/wine-gecko/${GECKO_VER}/wine-gecko-${GECKO_VER}-x86.tar.xz" \
+ "https://dl.winehq.org/wine/wine-gecko/${GECKO_VER}/wine-gecko-${GECKO_VER}-x86_64.tar.xz" \
+ "https://github.com/madewokherd/wine-mono/releases/download/wine-mono-${MONO_VER}/wine-mono-${MONO_VER}-x86.tar.xz" \
+ "https://github.com/madewokherd/xalia/releases/download/xalia-${XALIA_VER}/xalia-${XALIA_VER}-net48-mono.zip" \
+; do
+ curl -fL --retry 3 -o "contrib/$(basename "$url")" "$url"
+done
+
+# Proton's cargo rule runs `cargo build --locked --offline`, so every crate has
+# to be in CARGO_HOME before the build starts — including the git dependencies,
+# which is what the "you are in the offline mode" failure is really saying. The
+# error names a URL that is perfectly reachable; the build simply refuses to go
+# out and get it.
+#
+# gst-plugins-rs is the only cargo component in the tree. Both targets are
+# fetched: wow64 should mean nothing builds the i386 unix side, but a fetch is
+# metadata only and costs almost nothing next to being wrong about that.
+#
+# CARGO_HOME is left at its default so it lands in this layer and the build
+# layer inherits it.
+export CARGO_NET_GIT_FETCH_WITH_CLI=true
+export RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN=stable
+cd "${SRC_DIR}/gst-plugins-rs"
+cargo fetch --locked --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
+cargo fetch --locked --target i686-unknown-linux-gnu
+
+echo "proton: source at ${SRC_DIR}"
diff --git a/crates/nesprotocol/src/lifecycle.rs b/crates/nesprotocol/src/lifecycle.rs
index 8589eb8b..f00c2915 100644
--- a/crates/nesprotocol/src/lifecycle.rs
+++ b/crates/nesprotocol/src/lifecycle.rs
@@ -1,14 +1,34 @@
// The lifecycle layer of the control channel between a box and whatever runs
-// it: the boot descriptor the guest is handed, and what the guest says back
-// about carrying it out.
+// it: the document describing the box, the commands that run things inside it,
+// and what the guest says back about carrying either out.
//
// It lives beside the media types for the same reason they live here — one
// definition, so the two ends cannot drift from each other silently.
//
-// Nothing in this module describes *what* the guest runs. A command line, a
-// set of share tags, an output geometry, and what an exit means: that is the
-// whole vocabulary, and a field that only makes sense for one kind of workload
-// does not belong in it. ref(d-0033)
+// Nothing in this module describes *what* the guest runs. A set of share tags,
+// a command line, and what an exit means: that is the whole vocabulary, and a
+// field that only makes sense for one kind of workload does not belong in it.
+// ref(d-0033)
+//
+// # The box outlives what runs in it
+//
+// The guest init is resident: it mounts what the descriptor names, brings up
+// the box's service stack, says so, and then takes commands for as long as the
+// box lives. So the descriptor describes the *box* — which shares are mounted
+// where — and a command describes an occupant. A box may be launched into many
+// times. ref(d-0064)
+//
+// That is why every launch carries an id and every event about a launch carries
+// it back. Without one, a second launch's exit is indistinguishable from the
+// first's, which reads as an ended session that keeps billing or a running one
+// reported as stopped.
+//
+// # What is deliberately absent
+//
+// **Output geometry.** The compositor wraps the workload rather than running as
+// a service, so it is started by a launch with that launch's geometry in its own
+// argv, and the numbers appear nowhere else. Two sources of truth for one number
+// is a worse failure than either choice, because the wrong one is used silently.
//
// The channel also carries a second layer, which the guest relays as opaque
// bytes and never parses. Those types land with the relay that needs them.
@@ -34,7 +54,12 @@ pub const CONTROL_PORT: u32 = 7000;
///
/// Adding a variant or a field does not need a bump; removing or renaming one
/// does.
-pub const CONTROL_VERSION: u32 = 2;
+///
+/// Version 3 took three fields off the descriptor and put an id on three
+/// messages, so a version-2 peer and a version-3 peer do not talk at all.
+/// There is deliberately no shim: nothing is deployed, and a shim would be the
+/// second definition of this wire that one shared crate exists to prevent.
+pub const CONTROL_VERSION: u32 = 3;
/// The command to run, and who runs it.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
@@ -76,14 +101,32 @@ pub struct Mount {
pub ro: bool,
}
-/// The output the compositor should produce.
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
-pub struct Geometry {
- pub width: u32,
- pub height: u32,
- pub fps: u32,
- #[serde(default)]
- pub hdr: bool,
+/// Names one launch, for as long as anything has something to say about it.
+///
+/// Minted by the caller and only ever echoed by the guest. A guest that
+/// generated these would be naming things the caller then has to correlate
+/// against something else.
+///
+/// Opaque on purpose: nothing in this layer parses it, and a caller that wants
+/// meaning in it can put meaning in it without this crate having an opinion.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Hash, PartialOrd, Ord, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(transparent)]
+pub struct LaunchId(pub String);
+
+impl LaunchId {
+ pub fn new(id: impl Into) -> Self {
+ Self(id.into())
+ }
+
+ pub fn as_str(&self) -> &str {
+ &self.0
+ }
+}
+
+impl std::fmt::Display for LaunchId {
+ fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+ f.write_str(&self.0)
+ }
}
/// What the workload exiting means for the session.
@@ -95,21 +138,33 @@ pub struct OnExit {
/// reports the exit and stops, and starting something again is a new
/// command from the caller — the only end that can see whether restarting
/// is repair or a loop. ref(d-0033)
+ ///
+ /// It rides on the launch rather than on the descriptor, because a box that
+ /// can be launched into repeatedly cannot have one answer to this fixed at
+ /// boot. ref(d-0064)
pub terminal: bool,
}
-/// Everything the guest is told at boot, in one document.
+/// What the box *is*, in one document: the shares it has and where they land.
///
/// Sent once, immediately after the handshake, and read once. Deliberately not
-/// a conversation: boot configuration is a document, and a document cannot
-/// half-arrive.
+/// a conversation: this much is a document, and a document cannot half-arrive.
+/// What runs *in* the box is a conversation, and a separate one — see
+/// [`HostToGuest::Launch`]. ref(d-0064)
+///
+/// An empty `mounts` is legitimate. A box with nothing mounted still boots and
+/// still brings up its services.
+///
+/// `deny_unknown_fields` is load-bearing rather than strictness for its own
+/// sake. A descriptor still carrying a command line is a caller that has not
+/// been updated, and the default behaviour — ignore what it does not recognise —
+/// would mount the shares, silently drop the command, and leave a box that came
+/// up correctly and runs nothing. Refusing it says so instead.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
pub struct BootDescriptor {
- pub exec: Exec,
#[serde(default)]
pub mounts: Vec,
- pub geometry: Geometry,
- pub on_exit: OnExit,
}
/// How a workload ended.
@@ -145,6 +200,12 @@ impl Exit {
#[serde(tag = "type", rename_all = "snake_case")]
pub enum GuestToHost {
/// First line on the connection, before anything else is read or written.
+ ///
+ /// **This is the handshake, not readiness.** It says a connection exists
+ /// and both ends speak the same version. Whether anything in the box works
+ /// is [`GuestToHost::Initialized`], which is a different fact and must not
+ /// be merged with this one — a caller that treats this as readiness has a
+ /// wait stage that succeeds before the guest has started anything.
Ready { protocol_version: u32 },
/// Every share the descriptor named is where it said to put it.
Mounted,
@@ -154,13 +215,45 @@ pub enum GuestToHost {
/// looked at: a share that did not appear and a command that did not run
/// are not the same incident.
MountFailed { reason: String },
- /// The command the descriptor named is running.
- Started,
- /// The command could not be run, in the words the operating system used.
- StartFailed { reason: String },
- /// The workload the descriptor named has ended. Terminal or not is the
- /// descriptor's answer, not this message's.
+ /// The box's own services are up and it will accept launches.
+ ///
+ /// The one fact a caller waits on before it may launch anything. It names
+ /// what came up, so a log says which — an empty list is a box with no
+ /// service stack, which is legitimate and worth being able to see.
+ Initialized {
+ #[serde(default)]
+ services: Vec,
+ },
+ /// The box's services could not be brought up, in the words of whatever
+ /// refused.
+ ///
+ /// Kept separate from [`GuestToHost::MountFailed`] and
+ /// [`GuestToHost::StartFailed`] for the reason those two are separate from
+ /// each other: a share that did not appear, a box that could not be made,
+ /// and a command that did not run are three incidents that want three
+ /// different things looked at. A box in this state cannot be launched into
+ /// at all, which is what distinguishes it from a refused launch.
+ InitFailed { reason: String },
+ /// A service in the box's own stack exited.
+ ///
+ /// **Reported, never repaired.** Nothing else in the guest is watching
+ /// these, so a death that is not said here is a box that looks healthy and
+ /// cannot work. Restarting one is a decision for whoever can see whether
+ /// restarting is repair or a loop, and that is not this end. ref(d-0064)
+ ServiceDied {
+ name: String,
+ #[serde(flatten)]
+ exit: Exit,
+ },
+ /// The launch with this id is running.
+ Started { id: LaunchId },
+ /// The launch with this id could not be run, in the words the operating
+ /// system used.
+ StartFailed { id: LaunchId, reason: String },
+ /// The launch with this id has ended. Terminal or not is the launch's own
+ /// answer, not this message's.
WorkloadExited {
+ id: LaunchId,
#[serde(flatten)]
exit: Exit,
},
@@ -182,8 +275,26 @@ pub enum HostToGuest {
#[serde(flatten)]
descriptor: Box,
},
- /// Stop the workload. Idempotent, and does not end the session.
- Stop,
+ /// Run something in the box. Any number of times, after `initialized`.
+ ///
+ /// The caller mints `id` and every message about this launch carries it
+ /// back. `on_exit` belongs here rather than on the descriptor because a box
+ /// that can be launched into repeatedly has one answer per launch, not one
+ /// per boot. ref(d-0064)
+ Launch {
+ id: LaunchId,
+ exec: Exec,
+ on_exit: OnExit,
+ },
+ /// Stop one launch. Idempotent, and does not end the session.
+ Stop { id: LaunchId },
+ /// Stop one launch and start it again with the same command.
+ ///
+ /// **Defined as a kill followed by a launch of the same `Exec`, and nothing
+ /// more.** No retry, no backoff, no policy of any kind in the guest — it
+ /// exists as one message only because a caller sending two has the same
+ /// effect with a worse race in it. The relaunch keeps the id. ref(d-0064)
+ Restart { id: LaunchId },
/// Shut the guest down.
Shutdown,
/// Bytes for the workload, relayed. See [`Payload`].
@@ -260,25 +371,21 @@ mod tests {
fn descriptor() -> BootDescriptor {
BootDescriptor {
- exec: Exec {
- argv: vec!["/usr/bin/true".into()],
- env: BTreeMap::from([("HOME".to_string(), "/mnt/user".to_string())]),
- cwd: Some("/mnt/user".into()),
- uid: 1000,
- gid: 1000,
- },
mounts: vec![Mount {
tag: "install".into(),
at: "/mnt/install".into(),
ro: true,
}],
- geometry: Geometry {
- width: 1920,
- height: 1080,
- fps: 60,
- hdr: false,
- },
- on_exit: OnExit { terminal: true },
+ }
+ }
+
+ fn exec() -> Exec {
+ Exec {
+ argv: vec!["/usr/bin/true".into()],
+ env: BTreeMap::from([("HOME".to_string(), "/mnt/user".to_string())]),
+ cwd: Some("/mnt/user".into()),
+ uid: 1000,
+ gid: 1000,
}
}
@@ -300,9 +407,122 @@ mod tests {
);
}
+ #[test]
+ fn a_launch_round_trips_with_its_id() {
+ let launch = HostToGuest::Launch {
+ id: LaunchId::new("l-1"),
+ exec: exec(),
+ on_exit: OnExit { terminal: true },
+ };
+ let back: HostToGuest = from_line(&to_line(&launch).unwrap()).unwrap();
+ assert_eq!(back, launch);
+ }
+
+ /// The reason ids exist: a caller has to be able to tell which launch it is
+ /// being told about, or the second one's exit overwrites the first's record.
+ #[test]
+ fn every_event_about_a_launch_carries_the_launch_it_is_about() {
+ let first = LaunchId::new("l-1");
+ let second = LaunchId::new("l-2");
+
+ let events = [
+ GuestToHost::Started { id: first.clone() },
+ GuestToHost::StartFailed {
+ id: first.clone(),
+ reason: "ENOENT".into(),
+ },
+ GuestToHost::WorkloadExited {
+ id: first.clone(),
+ exit: Exit::code(0),
+ },
+ ];
+
+ for event in events {
+ let line = to_line(&event).unwrap();
+ assert!(
+ line.contains(first.as_str()) && !line.contains(second.as_str()),
+ "an event does not say which launch it is about: {line}"
+ );
+ let back: GuestToHost = from_line(&line).unwrap();
+ assert_eq!(back, event);
+ }
+ }
+
+ /// The descriptor describes the box. A caller still sending a command in it
+ /// has not been updated, and the cost of accepting one quietly is a box that
+ /// mounts, comes up, and runs nothing.
+ #[test]
+ fn a_descriptor_carrying_a_command_is_refused_rather_than_ignored() {
+ let stale = r#"{"exec":{"argv":["/bin/sh"],"uid":1000,"gid":1000},
+ "mounts":[],
+ "geometry":{"width":1280,"height":720,"fps":60},
+ "on_exit":{"terminal":true}}"#;
+ let parsed: Result = from_line(stale);
+ assert!(
+ parsed.is_err(),
+ "a descriptor with a command in it parsed: {parsed:?}"
+ );
+ }
+
+ /// Geometry is in the launched argv and nowhere else, so there is no field
+ /// here for it to disagree with.
+ #[test]
+ fn geometry_is_not_on_this_layer() {
+ let line = to_line(&HostToGuest::Boot {
+ descriptor: Box::new(descriptor()),
+ })
+ .unwrap();
+ for named in ["width", "height", "fps", "hdr", "geometry"] {
+ assert!(
+ !line.contains(named),
+ "the descriptor names {named}, which belongs in the launch: {line}"
+ );
+ }
+ }
+
+ /// A dead service is not a dead workload: they are different incidents and
+ /// want different things looked at.
+ #[test]
+ fn a_dead_service_says_which_one_and_how() {
+ let died = GuestToHost::ServiceDied {
+ name: "pipewire".into(),
+ exit: Exit::signal(9),
+ };
+ let line = to_line(&died).unwrap();
+ assert!(line.contains("pipewire"), "no service name: {line}");
+ assert!(
+ !line.contains("exit_code"),
+ "a signalled service has no exit code: {line}"
+ );
+ let back: GuestToHost = from_line(&line).unwrap();
+ assert_eq!(back, died);
+ }
+
+ /// `ready` is the handshake and `initialized` is the box working. A caller
+ /// waiting on the wrong one succeeds before anything has started.
+ #[test]
+ fn readiness_and_initialisation_are_two_messages() {
+ let ready = to_line(&GuestToHost::Ready {
+ protocol_version: CONTROL_VERSION,
+ })
+ .unwrap();
+ let initialized = to_line(&GuestToHost::Initialized {
+ services: vec!["dbus".into(), "pipewire".into()],
+ })
+ .unwrap();
+ assert_ne!(ready, initialized);
+
+ // An empty stack is legitimate and has to survive the round trip, or a
+ // box with no services looks like a box that never came up.
+ let empty = GuestToHost::Initialized { services: vec![] };
+ let back: GuestToHost = from_line(&to_line(&empty).unwrap()).unwrap();
+ assert_eq!(back, empty);
+ }
+
#[test]
fn a_signalled_exit_is_not_a_zero_exit() {
let signalled = to_line(&GuestToHost::WorkloadExited {
+ id: LaunchId::new("l-1"),
exit: Exit::signal(9),
})
.unwrap();
@@ -312,6 +532,7 @@ mod tests {
);
let clean = to_line(&GuestToHost::WorkloadExited {
+ id: LaunchId::new("l-1"),
exit: Exit::code(0),
})
.unwrap();
@@ -381,13 +602,19 @@ mod tests {
#[test]
fn defaults_cover_what_a_caller_may_leave_out() {
- let json = r#"{"exec":{"argv":["/bin/sh"],"uid":1000,"gid":1000},
- "geometry":{"width":1280,"height":720,"fps":30},
- "on_exit":{"terminal":false}}"#;
- let parsed: BootDescriptor = from_line(json).unwrap();
+ // A box with nothing mounted is a legitimate box.
+ let parsed: BootDescriptor = from_line("{}").unwrap();
assert!(parsed.mounts.is_empty());
- assert!(parsed.exec.env.is_empty());
- assert_eq!(parsed.exec.cwd, None);
- assert!(!parsed.geometry.hdr);
+
+ let launch = r#"{"type":"launch","id":"l-1",
+ "exec":{"argv":["/bin/sh"],"uid":1000,"gid":1000},
+ "on_exit":{"terminal":false}}"#;
+ let HostToGuest::Launch { id, exec, on_exit } = from_line(launch).unwrap() else {
+ panic!("not a launch: {launch}")
+ };
+ assert_eq!(id, LaunchId::new("l-1"));
+ assert!(exec.env.is_empty());
+ assert_eq!(exec.cwd, None);
+ assert!(!on_exit.terminal);
}
}
