flake-compat VS microvm.nix

See https://github.com/edolstra/flake-compat for prior art.

The key point of Tvix _not_ having support for Flakes is to not make special snowflake evaluator features that are tied in with it.

( let lock = builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile ./flake.lock); in fetchTarball { url = "https://github.com/edolstra/flake-compat/archive/${lock.nodes.flake-compat.locked.rev}.tar.gz"; sha256 = lock.nodes.flake-compat.locked.narHash; } ) { src = ./.; } ).defaultNix

# .nix { config, pkgs, ... }: { imports = [ ]; home-manager = { useUserPackages = true; useGlobalPkgs = true; users.me = let flake-compat = builtins.fetchTarball "https://github.com/edolstra/flake-compat/archive/master.tar.gz"; hyprland = (import flake-compat { src = builtins.fetchTarball "https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/archive/master.tar.gz"; }).defaultNix; in { imports = [ hyprland.homeManagerModules.default ]; wayland.windowManager.hyprland.enable = true; }; }; }

yeah, I've added https://github.com/edolstra/flake-compat so it should work without flakes.

Sounds like you may want flake-compat.

- Generating virtual machines/installators from a configuration: https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix and https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators

MicroVM.nix, which creates firecracker/cloud-hypervisor/qemu/etc VMs: https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix

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