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microvm.nix
| qemu | microvm.nix | |
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| 1 | 9 | |
| 0 | 1,592 | |
| - | 3.8% | |
| 0.0 | 9.1 | |
| 5 days ago | 12 days ago | |
| C | Nix | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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qemu
microvm.nix
- We're Leaving Kubernetes
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NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't
One technique employed by microvm.nix[0] is to mount the hosts /nix/store into the guest. This won't shrink the size of the system, but should allow it to be amortized across many different VMs.
I'm not sure how exploitable a read-only virtiofs share is, so this is perhaps not appropriate in some circumstances.
[0]: https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix
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Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix
- Generating virtual machines/installators from a configuration: https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix and https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators
- NixOS MicroVMs
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Is there a nixos solution for hyperconverged infrastructure?
MicroVM.nix, which creates firecracker/cloud-hypervisor/qemu/etc VMs: https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix
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Make your QEMU 10 times faster with this one weird trick
FWIW, the contemporary alternative to 9p is virtiofs. It is implemented as a separate service that is running aside the hypervisor. Originally out of qemu, it was rewritten in Rust as a freestanding project that can also be used with cloud-hypervisor and crosvm.
https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd
On NixOS: https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix
- microvm.nix: A Nix Flake to Easily Run NixOS MicroVMs on NixOS
- Microvm.nix: A Nix Flake to Easily Run NixOS MicroVMs on NixOS
What are some alternatives?
crosvm - The Chrome OS Virtual Machine Monitor - Mirror of https://chromium.googlesource.com/crosvm/crosvm/
nixt - Simple unit-testing for Nix [maintainer=@Lord-Valen]
quickemu - Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines. [Moved to: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu]
nix-cargo-integration - Library to easily and effortlessly integrate Cargo projects with Nix.
varfs - Super simple, but versatile, 9p filesystem serving multipurpose variables. (ootb with plan9port)
skyflake - NixOS Hyperconverged Infrastructure on Nomad/NixOS