[Nix-dev] Has someone a working setup for Kernel development with NixOS?

[Domen Kožar]

Forgot to answer, thanks for the ping:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/14721

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016, 20:30 Matthias Beyer <mail at beyermatthias.de> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> so I'm sending a PING on this because nobody responded. This will be
> my only PING (as I'm really interested in doing this) and I will not
> send any further PINGs on this, as it might be too much noise for some
> people in here.
>
> On 18-06-2016 20:16:48, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to get my feet wet with kernel development after my bachelors
> > thesis and maybe someone has a working setup for kernel dev with
> > NixOS.
> >
> > I especially think about doing a `nixos-rebuild build-vm` with a
> > self-compiled kernel, so what I'm looking for is something like this:
> >
> >     A way to build a QEMU VM with all my stuff installed (what
> >     `nixos-rebuild build-vm` does) _without_ changing my
> >     configuration.nix
> >
> > Does someone of you people on this list have a setup for this? Does
> > someone have a suggestion how to do this?
> >
> > I'm also thinking about using build machines for this and so on ...
> >
> > --- snip ---
> >
> > Of course you can do all these things without nixos, but I kinda like
> > the idea of doing it with nixos tools so I can have my system
> > services, programs and so on be tested in the VM without having to do
> > much setup on my own.
>
> --
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
> Kind regards,
> Matthias Beyer
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