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Spawns lightweight nixos vms in a shell

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 3 comments · first 2021-06-02 · latest 2026-03-22

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  1. …VM runtimes like QEMU, Firecracker, etc. There's also nixos-shell for ad-hoc virtual machines: https://github.com/mic92/nixos-shell
    comment by sshine · 2026-03-22 · in Why I love NixOS
  2. …something like nixos-shell[0] to quickly fire up a VM based on that config that they pulled. [0]: https://github.com/Mic92/nixos-shell (not to be confused with nix-shell)
    comment by codethief · 2024-08-19 · in Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment
  3. …something like nixos-shell[1] to spin up a headless VM of your machine into your current shell. [1] https://github.com/Mic92/nixos-shell
    comment by Sleepytime · 2021-06-02 · in NixOS 21.05