Currently libvirt requires two qemu derivations: qemu and qemu_kvm which is just a truncated version of qemu (defined as qemu.override { hostCpuOnly = true; }).
This patch exposes an option virtualisation.libvirtd.qemuPackage which allows to choose which package to use:
* pkgs.qemu_kvm if all your guests have the same CPU as host, or
* pkgs.qemu which allows to emulate alien architectures (for example ARMV7L on X86_64), or
* a custom derivation
virtualisation.libvirtd.enableKVM option is vague and could be deprecate in favor of virtualisation.libvirtd.qemuPackage, anyway it does allow to enable/disable kvm.
Without this, when you've enabled networkmanager and start a
nixos-container the container will briefly have its specified IP
address but then networkmanager starts managing it causing the IP
address to be dropped.
This is required on the ThunderX CPUs on the Packet.net Type-2A
machines that have a GICv3. For some reason the default is to create a
GICv2 independent of the host hardware...
This is required by the new c5.* instance types.
Note that this changes disk names from /dev/xvd* to
/dev/nvme0n*. Amazon Linux has a udev rule that calls a Python script
named "ec2nvme-nsid" to create compatibility symlinks. We could use
that, but it would mean adding Python to the AMI closure...
Unlike pathsFromGraph, on Nix 1.12, this function produces a
registration file containing correct NAR hash/size information.
https://hydra.nixos.org/build/62832723
-s, --script: never prompts for user intervention
Sometimes the NixOS installer tests fail when they invoke parted, e.g.
https://hydra.nixos.org/build/62513826/nixlog/1. But instead of exiting
right there, the tests hang until the Nix builder times out (and kills
the build). With this change the tests would instead fail immediately,
which is preferred.
While at it, use "parted --script" treewide, so nobody gets build
timeout due to parted error (or misuse). (Only nixos/ use it, and only
non-interactive.)
A few instances already use the short option "-s", convert them to long
option "--short".
Container config example code mentions `postgresql` service, but the correct use of that service involves setting `system.stateVersion` option (as discovered in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/30056).
The actual system state version is set randomly to 17.03 because I have no preferences here
There are currently two ways to build Openstack image. This just picks
best of both, to keep only one!
- Image is resizable
- Cloudinit is enable
- Password authentication is disable by default
- Use the same layer than other image builders (ec2, gce...)
Although it is quite safe to restart ```libvirtd``` when there are only ```qemu``` machines, in case if there are ```libvirt_lxc``` containers, a restart may result in putting the whole system into an odd state: the containers go on running but the new ```libvirtd``` daemons do not see them.
