Well the same commit that commented out the module also marks all of Xen as `broken` and it is still marked so <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/91cc22e841354199d16f5f86fcaf3395eebf92c7/pkgs/applications/virtualization/xen/default.nix#L139> (with a comment that explains something).
I’m not sure, but I think that happens simply because there is no one interested in maintaining the module as I don’t remember anyone mentioning Xen in this mailing list for the last year. So, you’ll have to start from updating the expression for Xen =). On Sat Dec 20 2014 at 0:37:37 Thomas Strobel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I plan to use NixOS as dom0 for Xen. There is an old, deactivated nixos > module available that I thought of using. But before I go ahead, I just > wanted to ask why dom0 support for Xen was dropped in NixOS? Anything > that I should keep in mind when trying to reestablish dom0 support? > > Many thanks > Thomas > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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