This looks like a starting point, but what I want to do is to build a full "nixos-rebuild build-vm"-VM with it - so I have some X-Server running, some browser installed and so on.
basically what I do with `nixos-rebuild build-vm` but from another configuration.nix than my system-configuration.nix. Is there a way to do this? I already found `pkgs.linuxPackages_custom` which can be used to do this, but I don't know how I can call the .nix file now to build a qemu VM with it... Maybe some pointers? On 27-06-2016 18:45:42, Domen Kožar wrote: > Forgot to answer, thanks for the ping: > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/14721 > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016, 20:30 Matthias Beyer <m...@beyermatthias.de> wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > so I'm sending a PING on this because nobody responded. This will be > > my only PING (as I'm really interested in doing this) and I will not > > send any further PINGs on this, as it might be too much noise for some > > people in here. > > > > On 18-06-2016 20:16:48, Matthias Beyer wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I want to get my feet wet with kernel development after my bachelors > > > thesis and maybe someone has a working setup for kernel dev with > > > NixOS. > > > > > > I especially think about doing a `nixos-rebuild build-vm` with a > > > self-compiled kernel, so what I'm looking for is something like this: > > > > > > A way to build a QEMU VM with all my stuff installed (what > > > `nixos-rebuild build-vm` does) _without_ changing my > > > configuration.nix > > > > > > Does someone of you people on this list have a setup for this? Does > > > someone have a suggestion how to do this? > > > > > > I'm also thinking about using build machines for this and so on ... > > > > > > --- snip --- > > > > > > Of course you can do all these things without nixos, but I kinda like > > > the idea of doing it with nixos tools so I can have my system > > > services, programs and so on be tested in the VM without having to do > > > much setup on my own. > > > > -- > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen, > > Kind regards, > > Matthias Beyer > > > > Proudly sent with mutt. > > Happily signed with gnupg. > > _______________________________________________ > > nix-dev mailing list > > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > > -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Kind regards, Matthias Beyer Proudly sent with mutt. Happily signed with gnupg.
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