Running NixOS Guests on QEMU

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Scout Monitoring - Performance metrics and, now, Logs Management Monitoring with Scout Monitoring
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  • Vagrant

    Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

    Running NixOS on a virtual machine (VM) is a safe and reproducible way to test such configurations. As for VMs, I have used VirtualBox, Vagrant and lxd in the past. However, I have found QEMU to be the simplest and most flexible solution for my needs.

  • Scout Monitoring

    Performance metrics and, now, Logs Management Monitoring with Scout Monitoring. Get early access to Scout Monitoring's NEW Ruby logging feature [beta] by signing up now. Start for free and enable logs to get better insights into your Rails apps.

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  • nix.dev

    Official documentation for getting things done with Nix.

    For further information, you may refer to the Official NixOS Manual and nix.dev tutorial “NixOS Virtual Machines”.

  • lxd

    Powerful system container and virtual machine manager

    Running NixOS on a virtual machine (VM) is a safe and reproducible way to test such configurations. As for VMs, I have used VirtualBox, Vagrant and lxd in the past. However, I have found QEMU to be the simplest and most flexible solution for my needs.

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