Hi,
I've managed to hack up NixOS enough that I can run it inside a 64-bit
Xen session (as a guest).
I don't have any installable images yet, but I have my modifications
stored in git, so I decided it would be worthwhile to share them.
http://github.com/jpick/nixos-xen64-nixos/tree/master
http://github.com/jpick/nixos-xen64-nixpkgs/tree/master
I bootstraped it by first installing NixOS inside VirtualBox on my Mac
(which now supports 64-bit), then I tarred it up, and manually created
an image on my server. I had to manually modify the initrd so I could
get it to work with a kernel I already had. Then I figured out how to
build a kernel with NixOS with a configuration that worked. I had to
make some modifications to the startup scripts as well (eg. different
device names).
It would be nice to get the modifications cleanly merged upstream. The
hacks I currently have are more of the 'brute force' variety.
In the new year, I'm hoping to do some more work on this. I'd also like
to see if I could make a NixOS image for Amazon's EC2.
Cheers,
- Jim
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