[Nix-dev] A few beginner issues

[Nick Sabalausky]

On 07/29/2016 11:09 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On 07/29/2016 06:50 PM, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
>>>    stage-1-init: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxsf': No such
>>> device
>>
>> I guess that means the virtualbox driver doesn't work with vmware.
>> (Two competing VM technologies, no surprise really.)
>>
>> I've never used vmware on Linux. I use VirtualBox. NixOS distributes
>> OVA files that you can import straight into VirtualBox. I think that's
>> a very easy way to get started.
>>
>
> /facepalm
>
> Clearly I can't read ;)
>

BTW, I did notice the prebuilt virtual machines, ready for importing, 
which is very nice, but I wanted to try installing it myself just for 
the learning experience. If/When I install it on a physical machine, I 
won't necessarily be able to rely on a prebuilt image. It's the first 
time I've installed any Linux without a GUI installer, but with the 
NixOS manual, it turned out to be easy enough.

I'll see what I can figure out about installing guest additions from 
vmware. I'm noticing a vmware-guest module on github. Should be simple 
enough...