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

Matthias Beyer mail at beyermatthias.de
Mon Jun 27 20:30:38 CEST 2016


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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