[Nix-dev] What kills my xserver?

[Arie Middelkoop]

On 10/05/12 10:57, Cillian de Róiste wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Arie Middelkoop<amiddelk at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Actually, I recall that the Nixos manual mentions that it's possible to test
>> your system in a virtual machine. I wonder if this could help in ruling out
>> hardware issues. Virtualized hardware is hopefully more deterministic among
>> different systems than real hardware...
>
> That's a nice idea, I ran some tests based on the instructions here a
> while back: http://nixos.org/wiki/NixOS_VM_tests

Ok, I can confirm that the shutdown issue must be a hardware issue, 
because I have no problems when running my system in a virtual machine. 
I should have thought of this earlier :)

This also means that it is for me rather hopeless to try and fix this...

Arie