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


You can use
* QEMU/KVM (see [[Virt-manager]])
* [[VirtualBox]]
* [[VMware]]
for virtualization. You can use [[Containers]] as well.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Install of host and install of guest additions
!NixOS host
!NixOS guest
!Code
|-
|QEMU/KVM
|
|virtualisation.libvirtd.enable = true;
<nowiki>#</nowiki> if you use libvirtd on a desktop environment
programs.virt-manager.enable = true; # can be used to manage non-local hosts as well
|-
|VirtualBox
|
|virtualisation.virtualbox.host.enable = true;
users.extraGroups.vboxusers.members = [ "user-with-access-to-virtualbox" ];
<nowiki>#</nowiki> unfree Extension Pack
nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
virtualisation.virtualbox.host.enableExtensionPack = true;
|-
|VMware
|
|virtualisation.vmware.host.enable = true;
|-
|
|QEMU/KVM
|services.qemuGuest.enable =true;
services.spice-vdagentd.enable = true;
|-
|
|VirtualBox
|virtualisation.virtualbox.guest.enable = true;
virtualisation.virtualbox.guest.x11 = true;
|-
|
|VMware
|services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "vmware" ];
virtualisation.vmware.guest.enable = true;
|-
|
|microvm.nix
|see  https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix
|}
[[Category:Guide]]
[[Category:Virtualization]]

Revision as of 17:10, 24 April 2024