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# Build and VM testing Guide
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> This assumes you have both `nix` installed as well as flakes
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> enabled. The `nixos` CLI is a requirement, too, unless you know how
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> to use the default NixOS utilities to do the equivalent job.
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The installer can currently be built using the `nixos` CLI as such:
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```sh
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nixos apply .#installer --vm
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```
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It will then tell you where it output the binary for the VM to.
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You can then run the VM like this:
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```sh
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# create a qcow2 disk image first
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qemu-img create -f qcow root.qcow2 20G
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# run the VM with QEMU
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QEMU_KERNEL_PARAMS=console=ttyS0 QEMU_OPTS="-hdd $PWD/root.qcow2" /nix/store/z5i5851bkl0i3mpssdabzrv4mrlzql5h-nixos-vm/bin/run-slos-vm -nographic
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```
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You will have to replace our `/nix/store` path with the path that
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`nixos apply` told you.
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Please note that you may have to replace `$PWD/root.qcow2` with the
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full path to your disk image.
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You should then have it booting in your terminal.
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# Design Principles
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1. **The user should be able to opt-out of all our tooling easily, and
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be left with a fully functional configuration.**
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The way we will do this is by having our tooling be a single import
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away.
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2. **Try to use existing tooling first**
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Instead of trying to re-invent the wheel, try using existing
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tooling as much as possible
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3. **The nixOS configuration *is* the state.**
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Instead of maintaining the database to figure out the state of the
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OS, we will read the existing nixOS configuration, i.e parse and
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evalutate the flake. For this, we will need to build a program that
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can evaluate nix, and then we will cache it all in easily readable
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JSON. Kind of like what the nixos-cli does for NixOS options
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caching.
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4. **Be as quick to set up as possible.**
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Similar to other projects, we want everything to be as quick and
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easy as physically possible. As such, we wanna eventually have an
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ISO that can be flashed for either aarch64 UEFI or amd64 UEFI
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(later BIOS+GPT, too) that asks minimal questions and installs the
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OS.
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> more TBD...