[Nix-dev] [ANN] Vagrant boxes for 14.12

[zimbatm]

Hi,

here are new vagrant boxes for virtualbox derived from the nixbox project
for nixos 14.12:

   - zimbatm/nixos-14.12-x86_64
   <https://atlas.hashicorp.com/zimbatm/boxes/nixos-14.12-x86_64>
   - zimbatm/nixos-14.12-i686
   <https://atlas.hashicorp.com/zimbatm/boxes/nixos-14.12-i686>

Vagrant boxes are useful for adopters who haven’t switched fully to NixOS
to try things out. They could also potentially used to build closures for
NixOps deploys.
Known limitations

The vagrant-nixos <https://github.com/oxdi/vagrant-nixos> plugin which
allows to change the hostname, ip and provision the box from the
Vagrantfile is supported by the images but needs to be fixes to generate
derivations who are compatible with nixos 14.12.
Future plans

The boxes are now built by Atlas. Github integration is also coming so that
build are executed on each commit.

Support for the vmware providers is also planned. 14.12 doesn’t support the
vmware guest additions but the latest unstable does. It might be possible
to automate unstable builds on each release. Other providers are also
possible.

My hope is to make the vagrant images official so that responsibility can
be shared for their maintenance. Right now there is a dozen of github repos
that do the same thing with slight variations and varying state of decay so
there is clearly a need.

Cheers,

zimbatm
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