Re: [Nix-dev] [ANN] Vagrant boxes for 14.12

2015-07-26 Thread Paulus Esterhazy
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

Re: [Nix-dev] [ANN] Vagrant boxes for 14.12

2015-07-25 Thread zimbatm
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.

Re: [Nix-dev] [ANN] Vagrant boxes for 14.12

2015-07-25 Thread Paulus Esterhazy
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 li

[Nix-dev] [ANN] Vagrant boxes for 14.12

2015-07-24 Thread zimbatm
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 b