nixos development environment using the vmware fusion hypervisor
- supports host/guest copy-paste and folder sharing
some stuff that is installed:
- git
- i3wm
- kitty
- tmux
- docker
- btm
- nix-index (command not found support)
configures user 'orpheus' on machine with hostname 'dreamdev'
- installs and configures some stuff using home-manager
project adapted for personal use from https://github.com/mitchellh/nixos-config
Recommended vm settings:
- ISO: NixOS 22.05 or later.
- Disk: SATA 150 GB+
- CPU/Memory: I give at least half my cores and half my RAM, as much as you can.
- Graphics: Full acceleration, full resolution, maximum graphics RAM.
- Network: Shared with my Mac.
- Remove sound card, remove video camera.
- Profile: Disable almost all keybindings
Boot the VM, and using the graphical console, change the root password to "root":
$ sudo su
$ passwd
# change to root
Run ifconfig and get the IP address of the first device. It is probably
192.168.58.XXX, but it can be anything. In a terminal with this repository
set this to the NIXADDR env var:
$ export NIXADDR=<VM ip address>
Perform the initial bootstrap. This will install NixOS on the VM disk image but will not setup any other configurations yet. This prepares the VM for any NixOS customization:
The Makefile assumes an intel processor for the hypervisor.
$ make vm/bootstrap0
After the VM reboots, run the full bootstrap, this will finalize the NixOS customization using this configuration:
$ make vm/bootstrap
You should have a graphical functioning dev VM.
To run the command-not-found stuff:
$ make vm/nixindex