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

vagrant init nixos/nixos-18.09-i686
# or
vagrant init nixos/nixos-18.09-x86_64

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

Building the images

First install packer and virtualbox.

Three packer builders are currently supported:

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

Have a look at the different make build target to build your image.

If you build 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:

vagrant box add nixbox32 packer_virtualbox-iso_virtualbox.box
# or
vagrant box add nixbox64 packer_virtualbox-iso_virtualbox.box

Updating the ISO urls

To update the ISO urls to the latest release run: make update

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