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Home Manager using Nix
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Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
As an alternative, here's a really minimalist command-line wrapper to run VMs in the macOS Virtualization.framework: https://github.com/evansm7/vftool
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Apple Virtualization Framework
Does vftool use https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization or https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor ?
https://github.com/evansm7/vftool appears to indicate the former, but I thought the later was required for rosetta so interested to try this.
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Ask HN: What is your development workflow on the MacBook M1?
The battery life on the MacBook M1 is pretty amazing but not having Virtualbox has been a pain and we are exploring options for our new team. I have mostly worked for companies with actual teams dedicated to providing build tools.
Past attempts to Dockerize all the infrastructure dependencies (e.g. we run our own database and DNS servers) and tying all of that with the build scripts was deemed more effort than its worth so that never quite got going. Maybe its different scratch?
I have tried a bunch of these projects so while interesting I'm not sure about building workflows around them:
https://mac.getutm.app/
https://github.com/KhaosT/SimpleVM
https://github.com/danielrfry/toyvm
https://github.com/evansm7/vftool
https://multipass.run/install
https://github.com/features/codespaces
https://medium.com/@paulrobu/how-to-run-ubuntu-22-04-vms-on-apple-m1-arm-based-systems-for-free-c8283fb38309
I know architecture differences will cause pain, hell here we are already. I think everyone will benefit from crowd sourcing experiences and hopefully we can save each other chunks of life thrown away.
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What tool do you use to {edit code, build artifacts, run unit tests, deploy artifacts, run e2e tests}
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How do you like developing on an M1 Mac so far?
VMs work. Qemu is working with patches. You have to build it though. None of the releases seems to be patched yet. There is an early preview of Parallels. Both Linux and Windows on Arm are working. Docker has an early release as well. There are few prebuilt projects on Github too:
https://github.com/evansm7/vftool
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Show HN: Vmctl/Vmcli – Easily Run Linux VMs on M1 Macs
I needed to add a persistent network configuration (which I didn't really figure out -- I was okay with starting an interface manually. I also had to re-generate the SSH host keys for some reason.
In order to do these, I loaded the image in initramfs (basically started the VM w/o specifying root=/dev/vda as the command line argument). Then I mounted /dev/vda and chroot'd to it. Then I could change the root password to something that I knew, and setup the keys / config.
I also was able to use the Ubuntu kernel/initrd to load a Debian 10 image as well. The default Debian 10 cloud image doesn't include the necessary kernel modules (virtio_console might be the only one necessary to add).
I've spent a few days testing out this and the linked vftool (https://github.com/evansm7/vftool) to try to get a Debian VM. It's not an easy thing, but it did eventually work. I ended up corrupting the disk image though, so that wasn't fun.
In order to do this on my Mac w/o needing a Linux machine, I installed ext4fuse so that I could mount raw disk images and mount partitions. I followed instructions from this GH issue, which was a great help.
https://github.com/evansm7/vftool/issues/2
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Apple M1 Chip
Late to the party here, but I have an M1 MacBook Air--other commenters mentioned marcan's WIP linux port which if fully realized, I'd expect someone would come up with a way to boot arch on it. Today, Apple provides a couple different APIs for accelerated aarch64 virtualization, and I've gotten several distros working using this tool (which uses the Virtualization.Framework). It's FAST too--haven't run benchmarks or anything but compiling code seems as snappy as my i9-9900k desktop
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Connection Refused M1 Docker Preview
I'm having the exact same problem. 192.168.64.0/24 seems to be the address space that macOS's virtualization framework uses. (At least, vftool spins up VMs using the same space.)
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Linux As Vm On M1 Possible
Heres the best guide so far, includes image download links and such: https://github.com/evansm7/vftool/issues/2#issuecomment-735455161
Home Manager using Nix
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Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features
It's probably overkill for what you are trying to do. But I have been using home-manager [0] as a way to quickly restore my working environment.
[0] https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/
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How do I actually update home-manager?
$ home-manager --version 23.05 $ nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/release-23.11.tar.gz home-manager $ nix-channel --update $ nix-shell '' -A install [...] All done! The home-manager tool should now be installed and you can edit /home/MY-USERNAME/.config/home-manager/home.nix to configure Home Manager. Run 'man home-configuration.nix' to see all available options. $ home-manager --version 23.05
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Possible to use KDE plugins on nixos?
Unfortunately until we find more volunteers in this area, it is hard to see status quo changing. See also https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/607 and this ongoing project https://github.com/pjones/plasma-manager
- Exclude packages in home manager
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An Overview of Nix in Practice
> Channels are, AFAIU, a reference to some point-in-time/commit/version of nixpkgs
It's not specifically nixpkgs, but any Nix code generally.
Per the Nix manual[0]:
> Channels are a mechanism for referencing remote Nix expressions and conveniently retrieving their latest version.
e.g. home-manager's suggested channel is just the github tarball for the relevant branch[1]:
nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager
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Fake recruiter Lazarus lured aerospace employee with trojanized coding challenge
It sounds like you'd benefit a lot from Nix/NixOS [1], if not just home-manager[2].
1. https://nixos.org/
2. https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
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Noob question: Where home-manager config after installed on archlinux
nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager nix-channel --update nix-shell '' -A install
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Need help on home manager neovim config
I'm using flakes and home manager and not really sure how to go about managing my neovim configuration. I've read through some other posts, github issues, and various articles trying to suss out a good way to do this. Reading through other people's configs and posts was somewhat helpful but there is a lot going on I don't understand and everyone's examples I've seen vary wildly.
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Recurring 'Home Manager not found' Error After Running nix-collect-garbage"
Said store path contains the home-manager repo. After the home-manager run, the store path is recreated.
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I want to like NixOS but... I can't and I need some help
I can't answer all your questions, but home-manager does have a dconf module that would probably be better to use than that external tool. Everything inside the options block are the things you can pass to the dconf module.
What are some alternatives?
UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS
Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
SimpleVM - Sample code for Virtualization framework
GNU Stow - GNU Stow - mirror of savannah git repository occasionally with more bleeding-edge branches
ACVM - GUI frontend for qemu for Apple Silicon based Macs
nixos-flake-example - This is a demo NixOS config, with optional flakes support. Along with notes on why flakes is useful and worth adopting.
vmcli - A set of utilities (vmcli + vmctl) for macOS Virtualization.framework
NixOS-WSL - NixOS on WSL(2) [maintainer=@nzbr]
macpine - Lightweight Linux VMs on MacOS
emacs-overlay - Bleeding edge emacs overlay [maintainer=@adisbladis]
auto-unlocker - Unlocker for VMWare macOS
chezmoi - Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.