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

[zimbatm]

Thank you for the feedback Paulus.

Just to give an idea of how much work is involved to make the images
official, here are the steps I think would be taken:
* transfer the github repo zimbatm/nixbox to the nixos org, probably rename
the project
* create a new "nixos" org on atlas at
https://atlas.hashicorp.com/organizations/new
* update the packer build scripts to publish under the nixos/ namespace
* update the README file to point to the new images
* integrate with the release process

Atlas is hosting the images so they are footing the transfer and storage
bill.


On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 at 17:40 Paulus Esterhazy <pesterhazy at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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