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

[Matthias Beyer]

This looks like a starting point,

but what I want to do is to build a full "nixos-rebuild build-vm"-VM 
with it - so I have some X-Server running, some browser installed and 
so on.

basically what I do with `nixos-rebuild build-vm` but from another 
configuration.nix than my system-configuration.nix.

Is there a way to do this?

I already found `pkgs.linuxPackages_custom` which can be used to do 
this, but I don't know how I can call the .nix file now to build a 
qemu VM with it...

Maybe some pointers?

On 27-06-2016 18:45:42, Domen Kožar wrote:
> 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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Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Kind regards,
Matthias Beyer

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