Category:Virtualization

Overview

This guide page exists to point out resources related to virtualization in the Nix ecosystem.

Virtualizing NixOS

This section is for information about running NixOS as a guest virtual machine.

VirtualBox

NixOS.org hosts an official VirtualBox virtual appliance image in OVA format.

VMware

See VMware for help using VMware to virtualize NixOS.

microvm.nix

NixOS on NixOS with configurable virtual machine manager: https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix

NixOS as a VM host

This section covers if you want to run virtual machines from within Nix(OS).

VirtualBox

See VirtualBox for more.

QEMU/KVM

See Virt-manager