nix-hosts

Ok, third time's the charm. Start fresh with nix host config

After two mildly successful attempts at nixifying my system config at

• v1 which I'd used for ages
• v2 which lifted me to the next level, but brought along a lot of cruft I don't understand or need

I decided to start fresh using numtide/blueprint and a blank slate, copy & pasting only what I really need and understand.

Let's see how it goes.

Building & Switching Darwin

nix run nix-darwin -- build --flake .#lichtblick
HOME=/var/root sudo darwin-rebuild switch --keep-going -v --flake ~/code/nix-hosts#lichtblick

Running NixOS VMs

Manual boot

• Define your NixOS host under hosts/<name> (see hosts/nextcloud/configuration.nix for layout).
• Build the VM derivation for a host:

nix build .#nixosConfigurations.vm-mini.config.system.build.vfkit-vz-runner

• Boot the resulting VM script (created under ./result/bin):

./result/bin/vfkit-nextcloud