Category:Virtualization: Difference between revisions

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

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

NixOS.org hosts an official VirtualBox virtual appliance image in OVA format. It is also possible to install via install image.

See VMware for help using VMware to virtualize NixOS.

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

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

1. In your configuration.nix add the following line virtualisation.vmware.host.enable = true;

2. reboot

See VirtualBox for more.

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 This guide page exists to point out resources related to virtualization in the Nix ecosystem.
-== Virtualizing NixOS ==
+== NixOS as VM guest ==
 This section is for information about running NixOS as a guest virtual machine.
-=== VirtualBox ===
+=== VirtualBox as host ===
-NixOS.org hosts an [https://nixos.org/download.html#nixos-virtualbox official VirtualBox virtual appliance image] in OVA format.
+NixOS.org hosts an [https://nixos.org/download.html#nixos-virtualbox official VirtualBox virtual appliance image] in OVA format. It is also possible to install via install image.
-=== VMware ===
+=== VMware as host ===
 See [[VMware]] for help using VMware to virtualize NixOS.
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 This section covers if you want to run virtual machines from within Nix(OS).
-=== VMware ===
+=== running VMware host on NixOS ===
 . In your configuration.nix  add the following line
 <code> virtualisation.vmware.host.enable = true; </code>
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 . reboot
-=== VirtualBox ===
+=== running VirtualBox host on NixOS ===
 See [[VirtualBox]] for more.
-=== QEMU/KVM ===
+=== running QEMU/KVM host on NixOS ===
 See [[Virt-manager]]