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

[Paulus Esterhazy]

Works great for me, thanks zimbatm! It's great that you took the time
to update the release.

Having nixos as a vagrant box is highly valuable for new users, as it
is a pain-free way to try things out (for Windows and MacOS users as
well as for Linux users).

Having official vagrant images (just like there are official AMIs for
EC2) maintained by the nixos community would be great. I'd even say it
would be nice to link to them (and instructions) on the nixos front
page.

As a user of vagrant myself, I hope to contribute to this in the future.

(For anyone else who is wondering, the vagrant box source is here:
https://github.com/zimbatm/nixbox)

Paulus

On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 3:34 AM, zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> here are new vagrant boxes for virtualbox derived from the nixbox project
> for nixos 14.12:
>
> zimbatm/nixos-14.12-x86_64
> zimbatm/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 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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