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NixOS includes support for hosting virtual machines. The Nix store of the host machine is shared read-only with guest machines, making them lighter-weight in terms of storage use than typical VMs. Guest VMs are easily built from Nix configurations. | NixOS includes support for hosting virtual machines. The Nix store of the host machine is shared read-only with guest machines, making them lighter-weight in terms of storage use than typical VMs. Guest VMs are easily built from Nix configurations. | ||
[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/virtualisation/qemu-vm.nix qemu-vm.nix - Implementation of QEMU builds of NixOS machine configurations] | * [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/virtualisation/qemu-vm.nix qemu-vm.nix - Implementation of QEMU builds of NixOS machine configurations] | ||
* [https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker Firecracker microVM] - packages [https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=unstable&show=firecracker&from=0&size=30&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=firecracker available] | |||
===== Test machines ===== | ===== Test machines ===== | ||