https://gist.github.com/Mic92/4fdf9a55131a7452f97003f445294f97
idea is adapted from clever, who is building other nice stuff currently in this area: (https://imgur.com/a/GqdJL https://github.com/cleverca22/nix-tests/blob/master/kexec/configuration.nix#L57 https://gist.github.com/cleverca22/75e3db4dabeff05b743e9be77a2341b9#file-configuration-nix-L4-L19) At least on nixos unstable kexec is currently broken though: I have opened a pull request regarding that: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/21158 This could be probably interesting for nixos in general - I think of a generic way to deploy nixos with nixops, if the provider does not offer other options. On 2016-12-14 16:18, Thomas Hunger wrote: > @Jörg - do you have a link to the kexec based installer? > > On 14 December 2016 at 15:00, Jörg Thalheim <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I recently made some good experience with kexec based installer. > > They can run basically run on every Linux out there. > > > On 2016-12-14 01:06, Jeaye wrote: > > I've been running a NixOS droplet on DigitalOcean, via > nixos-in-place[1] for about a year. The process for getting it on there is > janky, but it's smooth sailing afterward. > > > > 1: https://github.com/jeaye/nixos-in-place > <https://github.com/jeaye/nixos-in-place> > > > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 02:30:07PM +0100, Alexandre Peyroux wrote: > >> Anyone tried on a scaleway instance? > >> > >> 2016-12-12 13:48 GMT+01:00 Profpatsch <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > >> > >>> On 16-12-12 12:42pm, Azul wrote: > >>>> works on a 2GB 3quid/month OVH kvm instance, only had to rename eth > to > >>> ens3 > >>>> uname -a > >>>> Linux vps353091 4.4.36 #1-NixOS SMP Fri Dec 2 08:09:18 UTC 2016 > x86_64 > >>>> GNU/Linux > >>>> > >>>> nice one chaps > >>> Very cool! > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Proudly written in Mutt with Vim on NixOS. > >>> Q: Why is this email five sentences or less? > >>> A: http://five.sentenc.es > >>> May take up to five days to read your message. If it’s urgent, call > me. > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> nix-dev mailing list > >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > >>> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > <http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> nix-dev mailing list > >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > <http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > nix-dev mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > <http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev> > > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > <http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev> > > _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
