Thank you for the feedback Paulus. Just to give an idea of how much work is involved to make the images official, here are the steps I think would be taken: * transfer the github repo zimbatm/nixbox to the nixos org, probably rename the project * create a new "nixos" org on atlas at https://atlas.hashicorp.com/organizations/new * update the packer build scripts to publish under the nixos/ namespace * update the README file to point to the new images * integrate with the release process
Atlas is hosting the images so they are footing the transfer and storage bill. On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 at 17:40 Paulus Esterhazy <pesterh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Works great for me, thanks zimbatm! It's great that you took the time > to update the release. > > Having nixos as a vagrant box is highly valuable for new users, as it > is a pain-free way to try things out (for Windows and MacOS users as > well as for Linux users). > > Having official vagrant images (just like there are official AMIs for > EC2) maintained by the nixos community would be great. I'd even say it > would be nice to link to them (and instructions) on the nixos front > page. > > As a user of vagrant myself, I hope to contribute to this in the future. > > (For anyone else who is wondering, the vagrant box source is here: > https://github.com/zimbatm/nixbox) > > Paulus > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 3:34 AM, zimbatm <zimb...@zimbatm.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > here are new vagrant boxes for virtualbox derived from the nixbox project > > for nixos 14.12: > > > > zimbatm/nixos-14.12-x86_64 > > zimbatm/nixos-14.12-i686 > > > > Vagrant boxes are useful for adopters who haven’t switched fully to > NixOS to > > try things out. They could also potentially used to build closures for > > NixOps deploys. > > > > Known limitations > > > > The vagrant-nixos plugin which allows to change the hostname, ip and > > provision the box from the Vagrantfile is supported by the images but > needs > > to be fixes to generate derivations who are compatible with nixos 14.12. > > > > Future plans > > > > The boxes are now built by Atlas. Github integration is also coming so > that > > build are executed on each commit. > > > > Support for the vmware providers is also planned. 14.12 doesn’t support > the > > vmware guest additions but the latest unstable does. It might be > possible to > > automate unstable builds on each release. Other providers are also > possible. > > > > My hope is to make the vagrant images official so that responsibility > can be > > shared for their maintenance. Right now there is a dozen of github repos > > that do the same thing with slight variations and varying state of decay > so > > there is clearly a need. > > > > Cheers, > > > > zimbatm > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > nix-dev mailing list > > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > > >
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