Category:Virtualization

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

You can use

for virtualization. You can use Containers as well.

Install of host and install of guest additions
NixOS host	NixOS guest	Code
QEMU/KVM		virtualisation.libvirtd.enable = true; # 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" ]; # 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