Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS on Azure?

2014-09-08 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
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Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS on Azure?

2014-09-06 Thread Rob Vermaas
dler (MS OPEN TECH)<mailto:ross.gard...@microsoft.com> >> > Cc: nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl<mailto:nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl> >> > Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS on Azure? >> > >> > Hi Ross, >> > >> > Am I reading [1] correct

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS on Azure?

2014-09-05 Thread Wout Mertens
> > > > From: Shea Levy<mailto:s...@shealevy.com> > > Sent: ‎9/‎5/‎2014 3:58 PM > > To: Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)<mailto:ross.gard...@microsoft.com> > > Cc: nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl<mailto:nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl>

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS on Azure?

2014-09-05 Thread Shea Levy
)<mailto:ross.gard...@microsoft.com> > Cc: nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl<mailto:nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl> > Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS on Azure? > > Hi Ross, > > Am I reading [1] correctly that Azure VMs are started from VHDs? If so, > we already have a function for creat

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS on Azure?

2014-09-05 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)<mailto:ross.gard...@microsoft.com> Cc: nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl<mailto:nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl> Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS on Azure? Hi Ross, Am I reading [1] correctly that Azure VMs are started from VHDs? If so, we already have a function for crea

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS on Azure?

2014-09-05 Thread Shea Levy
Hi Ross, Am I reading [1] correctly that Azure VMs are started from VHDs? If so, we already have a function for creating virutalbox images that converts a raw image containing a base NixOS system to VDI using qemu-img, so it should be straightforward to tweak that to create a VHD instead. [1]: h

[Nix-dev] NixOS on Azure?

2014-09-05 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
I see that NixOS has images available for some of the popular clouds, but not for Azure. I'd love to see a NixOS image on VM Depot. VM Depot is a community managed repository of virtual machines for Azure. We have something like 8 different Linux distros and arou