A demonstration how easy it is to build text only or graphical Linux VMs with nix on Darwin.
Kudos to
- This blog article by tweag about how to achieve this
- @afh for doing most of the research and getting this started
If you do not have a remote builder setup for linux builds, run a linux builder
nix run nixpkgs#darwin.linux-builder
or enable it the nix-darwin linux builder or the nix-rosetta-builder if you want rosetta support
Then run your custom NixOS VM
# directly in terminal
nix run
# or
nix run .#text
# in a graphical window
nix run .#graphic
Profit!