Hi zimbatm, sounds like a plan. So basically the idea would be to integrate this recipe into some location in nixpkgs?
I've created an issue to track the progress: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/8998 I won't have time to work on this in the next few weeks though. Paulus On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 9:40 PM, zimbatm <zimb...@zimbatm.com> wrote: > Thank you for the feedback Paulus. > > Just to give an idea of how much work is involved to make the images > official, here are the steps I think would be taken: > * transfer the github repo zimbatm/nixbox to the nixos org, probably rename > the project > * create a new "nixos" org on atlas at > https://atlas.hashicorp.com/organizations/new > * update the packer build scripts to publish under the nixos/ namespace > * update the README file to point to the new images > * integrate with the release process > > Atlas is hosting the images so they are footing the transfer and storage > bill. > > > On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 at 17:40 Paulus Esterhazy <pesterh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Works great for me, thanks zimbatm! It's great that you took the time >> to update the release. >> >> Having nixos as a vagrant box is highly valuable for new users, as it >> is a pain-free way to try things out (for Windows and MacOS users as >> well as for Linux users). >> >> Having official vagrant images (just like there are official AMIs for >> EC2) maintained by the nixos community would be great. I'd even say it >> would be nice to link to them (and instructions) on the nixos front >> page. >> >> As a user of vagrant myself, I hope to contribute to this in the future. >> >> (For anyone else who is wondering, the vagrant box source is here: >> https://github.com/zimbatm/nixbox) >> >> Paulus >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 3:34 AM, zimbatm <zimb...@zimbatm.com> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > here are new vagrant boxes for virtualbox derived from the nixbox >> > project >> > for nixos 14.12: >> > >> > zimbatm/nixos-14.12-x86_64 >> > zimbatm/nixos-14.12-i686 >> > >> > Vagrant boxes are useful for adopters who haven’t switched fully to >> > NixOS to >> > try things out. They could also potentially used to build closures for >> > NixOps deploys. >> > >> > Known limitations >> > >> > The vagrant-nixos plugin which allows to change the hostname, ip and >> > provision the box from the Vagrantfile is supported by the images but >> > needs >> > to be fixes to generate derivations who are compatible with nixos 14.12. >> > >> > Future plans >> > >> > The boxes are now built by Atlas. Github integration is also coming so >> > that >> > build are executed on each commit. >> > >> > Support for the vmware providers is also planned. 14.12 doesn’t support >> > the >> > vmware guest additions but the latest unstable does. It might be >> > possible to >> > automate unstable builds on each release. Other providers are also >> > possible. >> > >> > My hope is to make the vagrant images official so that responsibility >> > can be >> > shared for their maintenance. Right now there is a dozen of github repos >> > that do the same thing with slight variations and varying state of decay >> > so >> > there is clearly a need. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > >> > zimbatm >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > nix-dev mailing list >> > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl >> > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >> > _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev