Re: [Nix-dev] [Bachelors Thesis] Studi-Cloud VMs managing with Nix?

No. I need a way to describe debian/centos VM ISO images with Nix. Not more, not less. On 19-12-2015 23:01:22, Wout Mertens wrote: > So basically you need a frontend that creates .nix files for profs and a vm > image with all binaries for everything already on it? > > On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at

Re: [Nix-dev] [Bachelors Thesis] Studi-Cloud VMs managing with Nix?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ good luck I'd say :) On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 10:45 AM Matthias Beyer wrote: > No. > > I need a way to describe debian/centos VM ISO images with Nix. Not > more, not less. > > On 19-12-2015 23:01:22, Wout Mertens wrote: > > So basically you need a frontend that

Re: [Nix-dev] [Bachelors Thesis] Studi-Cloud VMs managing with Nix?

On 11-12-2015 16:45:38, Vladimír Čunát wrote: > On 12/08/2015 03:31 PM, Matthias Beyer wrote: > > Maybe you guys have some more ideas on what we can do and how we could > > do > > it. Feel free to post your crazy ideas, I want _everything_ I could > > possible > > do in my bachelors

Re: [Nix-dev] [Bachelors Thesis] Studi-Cloud VMs managing with Nix?

On 11-12-2015 15:56:00, Marc Weber wrote: > > But serausly, if the profs need etiher mysql or postgresql why not put > both on one iso and be done? Should students switch isos if they "happen > to require the other software .." ? Because we would have N different ISOs flying around. Each Prof

Re: [Nix-dev] [Bachelors Thesis] Studi-Cloud VMs managing with Nix?

So basically you need a frontend that creates .nix files for profs and a vm image with all binaries for everything already on it? On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 4:34 PM Matthias Beyer wrote: > On 11-12-2015 15:56:00, Marc Weber wrote: > > > > But serausly, if the profs need

Re: [Nix-dev] [Bachelors Thesis] Studi-Cloud VMs managing with Nix?

On 12/08/2015 03:31 PM, Matthias Beyer wrote: > Maybe you guys have some more ideas on what we can do and how we could do > it. Feel free to post your crazy ideas, I want _everything_ I could > possible > do in my bachelors thesis. Perhaps NixOS containers instead of full VMs? That

Re: [Nix-dev] [Bachelors Thesis] Studi-Cloud VMs managing with Nix?

VMs: Either you put the 'iso's on disk, then each VM has its own data on disk (may startup faster) - or you "share data" and fetch it via network (nfs or whatever) - like "network booting", then you can share, ad you can have "one nixos host" sharing all mysql/postgresql and the configs required

[Nix-dev] [Bachelors Thesis] Studi-Cloud VMs managing with Nix?

Hi, some of you already know: I'm going to write my bachelors thesis next year, from march until June or July. I had another idea and one of my protential supervisors is really interested in a solution to the following problem: We have a cloud for students here, each student is able to start