https://www.technicalsourcery.net/tags/headless/Recent content in headless on 🪄 Technical SourceryHugo -- gohugo.ioenCopyright © 2018-{year} Karl Stenerud. All Rights Reserved.Sun, 01 Aug 2021 14:11:43 +0100https://www.technicalsourcery.net/posts/nixos-in-libvirt/Sun, 01 Aug 2021 14:11:43 +0100https://www.technicalsourcery.net/posts/nixos-in-libvirt/NixOS has a lot of really cool ideas, but unfortunately installing on a VM is still tricky. This guide is designed as a “just get me something working, please!” way to get a headless NixOS install up and running in a libvirt VM. Prerequisites You will need to have libvirt and virt-install on your system. On Ubuntu: 1sudo apt update 2sudo apt install qemu-kvm libvirt-daemon-system virtinst On Redhat: 1sudo yum install kvm virt-manager libvirt libvirt-python python-virtinst You’ll also need the NixOS minimal ISO image Launching the VM Use the following as an example for launching your vm, picking a decent place to create your qcow2 disk image (you will be installing to this) so that you can find it later: