Re: [Nix-dev] [Bachelors Thesis] Studi-Cloud VMs managing with Nix?

2015-12-19 Thread Wout Mertens
So basically you need a frontend that creates .nix files for profs and a vm image with all binaries for everything already on it? On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 4:34 PM Matthias Beyer wrote: > On 11-12-2015 15:56:00, Marc Weber wrote: > > > > But serausly, if the profs need etiher mysql or postgresql w

Re: [Nix-dev] Virtualbox on Nixos15.09, Error: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)

2015-12-19 Thread rohit yadav
Yes, I did. I added the my user to the user group of vboxusers. However, virtualbox complains about the group permission. "nixbld" though added as vboxuser doesn't solve the issue. I guess there is no user with name nixbld. Its only a group. So when I disabled the write permission on /nix, it works

[Nix-dev] Trouble building on debian testing

2015-12-19 Thread Andrew Fraser
This is my first post. I welcome pointers on appropriate format. I am trying to install nix in $HOME/nix on my debian testing box at home. I'm doing it to practice for installing nix at work where I am not permitted to load system software. If I can resolve my problems, I will edit the wiki to

Re: [Nix-dev] [Bachelors Thesis] Studi-Cloud VMs managing with Nix?

2015-12-19 Thread Matthias Beyer
On 11-12-2015 15:56:00, Marc Weber wrote: > > But serausly, if the profs need etiher mysql or postgresql why not put > both on one iso and be done? Should students switch isos if they "happen > to require the other software .." ? Because we would have N different ISOs flying around. Each Prof nee

Re: [Nix-dev] [Bachelors Thesis] Studi-Cloud VMs managing with Nix?

2015-12-19 Thread Matthias Beyer
On 11-12-2015 16:45:38, Vladimír Čunát wrote: > On 12/08/2015 03:31 PM, Matthias Beyer wrote: > > Maybe you guys have some more ideas on what we can do and how we could > > do > > it. Feel free to post your crazy ideas, I want _everything_ I could > > possible > > do in my bachelors t

Re: [Nix-dev] Virtualbox on Nixos15.09, Error: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)

2015-12-19 Thread Arseniy Seroka
Did you set `virtualisation.virtualbox.host.enable = true;` in your configuration.nix? -- Sincerely, Arseniy Seroka On 19 December 2015 02:53:23 rohit yadav wrote: Changing the permission of of '/nix' by 'chmod g-w' solves the​ issue. Is it a right solution? On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 5:17 P