Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS as dom0 for Xen

2014-12-23 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 20/12/14 21:37, Thomas Strobel wrote: I plan to use NixOS as dom0 for Xen. There is an old, deactivated nixos module available that I thought of using. But before I go ahead, I just wanted to ask why dom0 support for Xen was dropped in NixOS? Just bitrot. I had a Xen NixOS at some

Re: [Nix-dev] Enable openntpd instead ntp by default

2014-12-23 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 21/12/14 21:32, Paul Colomiets wrote: I'm not sure was it discussed before, but I want to ask if we should enable openntpd instead of ntpd by default? +1 on switching to openntpd or systemd-timesyncd (with a preference for the latter for better integration with the rest of the system,

Re: [Nix-dev] Avoiding threads in the daemon

2014-12-23 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 19/12/14 19:20, Eelco Dolstra wrote: I see a few ways to get PID namespaces back: * Do a regular fork followed by clone(... | CLONE_NEWPID | CLONE_PARENT) (after which the intermediate process can exit). This has been implemented in bd0f362d2fad1dd5f28e762011888b5eabd21280. --