iNode / nixbox

NixOS Vagrant boxes

NixOS boxes for Vagrant

NixOS is a linux distribution based on a purely functional package manager. This project builds vagrant .box images.

Status

stable

Usage

First update the ISO urls and checksums to the latest NixOS release with make update, otherwise checksum verification will fail when packer is invoked.

Alternatively you can call gen_template.rb and iso_urls_update.rb scripts manually.

Building the images:

First install packer and virtualbox.

These packer builders are currently supported:

• Virtualbox
• qemu / libvirt
• VMware
• Hyper-V

Take a look at the different make build targets in the Makefile to build your image.

e.g.: $ make build-x86_64

If you're building on a host that does not support Makefile, here are some examples:

packer build --only=virtualbox-iso nixos-i686.json
packer build --only=qemu nixos-x86_64.json
packer build --only=vmware-iso nixos-x86_64.json
packer build --only=hyperv-iso nixos-x86_64.json

The vagrant .box image is now ready to go and you can use it in vagrant. Add it as follows:

e.g.:

vagrant box add nixos-box-20.09-x86_64 nixos-20.09-virtualbox-x86_64.box 

Create a vagrant file:

$ vagrant init nixos64

Make sure that config.vm.box param of your Vagrantfile matches the name of your added box. For the example above:

config.vm.box = nixos-box-20.09-x86_64

You can skip renaming config.vm.box if you create your Vagrantfile using the proper box name: $ vagrant init nixos-box-20.09-x86_64

Start the vagrant environment:

$ vagrant up

Also have a look at the accompanying nixos vagrant plugin: https://github.com/nix-community/vagrant-nixos-plugin

Troubleshooting

If you build on a Windows OS, please make sure you keep the unix file encoding of the generated configuration files (see issue #30)

License

Copyright 2015 under the MIT

Acknowledgement

nix-community/nixbox

https://lunar.computer/posts/vagrant-nixos/