[Nix-dev] How to install in NixOS in a KVM virtual machine?

[Colin Adams]

Thanks. I've got it working now.


On 8 February 2014 11:35, Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8 February 2014 12:18, Colin Adams <colinpauladams at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've defined a virtual machine (using virt-manager running on Fedora 18),
> > and booted the live-CD iso image on it. Whilst I've many years
> experience of
> > linux, I don't have any experience of KVM, and I'm puzzled as to how to
> > follow the installation instructions in this scenario.
> >
> > The first item mentioned is using fdisk for partitioning. But I'm not at
> all
> > clear what is available to be partitioned in a KVM environment.
>
> You must create a disk file and attach it to your virtual machine machine.
>
> > Then there is the target file system on which NixOS should be installed.
> I
> > guess this should be one of the partitions created using fdisk. But I'm
> not
> > sure if "/dev/dis/by-label/nixos" is to be taken literally, or if there
> are
> > substitutions needed.
>
> It can be taken literally, but requires you to have labelled your disk
> partition "nixos". You can do that with
>
>   tune2fs -L nixos /dev/sdaX  # replace X with the partition number
>
> in the virtual machine.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Best regards,
> Bjørn Forsman
>
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