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NixOS MicroVMs

9 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 3 stories, 6 comments · first 2022-04-21 · latest 2025-04-12

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  1. …have any thoughts on this project. It's Nix hypervisor + microvms as an alternative to containers https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix
    comment by nylonstrung · 2025-04-12 · in Nix Derivations, Without Guessing
  2. Have you tried https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix ? You can use the same NixOS module for both declarative VMs and imperatively configured and spawned VMs.
    comment by eptcyka · 2024-11-04 · in We're Leaving Kubernetes
  3. …a read-only virtiofs share is, so this is perhaps not appropriate in some circumstances. [0]: https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix
    comment by hamandcheese · 2024-10-02 · in NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't
  4. …https://github.com/musnix/musnix Generating virtual machines/installators from a configuration: https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators It's interesting to scroll through nix-darwin options, I…
    comment by igorramazanov · 2024-04-16 · in Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix
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    NixOS MicroVMs
    story by kristianpaul · 2024-03-26 · 0 comments
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    NixOS MicroVMs
    story by alex_hirner · 2023-03-12 · 0 comments
  7. …but I couldn’t figure it out. microvm has caught my eye recently but I haven’t played with it yet: https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix
    comment by ochoseis · 2022-12-01 · in NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon”
  8. …can also be used with cloud-hypervisor and crosvm. https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd On NixOS: https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix
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    Microvm.nix: A Nix Flake to Easily Run NixOS MicroVMs on NixOS
    story by astro1 · 2022-04-21 · 0 comments