[Nix-dev] How to test my service definition without actually "installing" it?

[Luca Bruno]

On 14/05/2015 10:07, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently working on
>
>     https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/7771
>
> (taskwarrior-server service definition for nixos)
>
> How to test my service definition without installing it aka. without
> polluting my boot manager with boot entries? How to "install" it
> without rebuilding my complete system because of the switch from
> the nixos-unstable channel to the "master branch" channel.
>
> Or am I getting something wrong with the last sentence?
>
You can try with nixos-build-vms or nixos-rebuild build-vm or containers
or...

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