# This module creates a virtual machine from the NixOS configuration. # Building the `config.system.build.vm' attribute gives you a command # that starts a KVM/QEMU VM running the NixOS configuration defined in # `config'. The Nix store is shared read-only with the host, which # makes (re)building VMs very efficient. However, it also means you # can't reconfigure the guest inside the guest - you need to rebuild # the VM in the host. On the other hand, the root filesystem is a # read/writable disk image persistent across VM reboots. { config, lib, pkgs, ... }: with lib; let vmName = if config.networking.hostName == "" then "noname" else config.networking.hostName; cfg = config.virtualisation; qemuGraphics = if cfg.graphics then "" else "-nographic"; kernelConsole = if cfg.graphics then "" else "console=ttyS0"; ttys = [ "tty1" "tty2" "tty3" "tty4" "tty5" "tty6" ]; # Shell script to start the VM. startVM = '' #! ${pkgs.stdenv.shell} NIX_DISK_IMAGE=$(readlink -f ''${NIX_DISK_IMAGE:-${config.virtualisation.diskImage}}) if ! test -e "$NIX_DISK_IMAGE"; then ${pkgs.qemu_kvm}/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow2 "$NIX_DISK_IMAGE" \ ${toString config.virtualisation.diskSize}M || exit 1 fi # Create a directory for storing temporary data of the running VM. if [ -z "$TMPDIR" -o -z "$USE_TMPDIR" ]; then TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d nix-vm.XXXXXXXXXX --tmpdir) fi # Create a directory for exchanging data with the VM. mkdir -p $TMPDIR/xchg ${if cfg.useBootLoader then '' # Create a writable copy/snapshot of the boot disk. # A writable boot disk can be booted from automatically. ${pkgs.qemu_kvm}/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b ${bootDisk}/disk.img $TMPDIR/disk.img || exit 1 ${if cfg.useEFIBoot then '' # VM needs a writable flash BIOS. cp ${bootDisk}/bios.bin $TMPDIR || exit 1 chmod 0644 $TMPDIR/bios.bin || exit 1 '' else '' ''} '' else '' ''} cd $TMPDIR idx=2 extraDisks="" ${flip concatMapStrings cfg.emptyDiskImages (size: '' if ! test -e "empty$idx.qcow2"; then ${pkgs.qemu_kvm}/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow2 "empty$idx.qcow2" "${toString size}M" fi extraDisks="$extraDisks -drive index=$idx,file=$(pwd)/empty$idx.qcow2,if=${cfg.qemu.diskInterface},werror=report" idx=$((idx + 1)) '')} # Start QEMU. exec ${cfg.qemu.program} \ -name ${vmName} \ -m ${toString config.virtualisation.memorySize} \ ${optionalString (pkgs.stdenv.system == "x86_64-linux") "-cpu kvm64"} \ ${concatStringsSep " " config.virtualisation.qemu.networkingOptions} \ -virtfs local,path=/nix/store,security_model=none,mount_tag=store \ -virtfs local,path=$TMPDIR/xchg,security_model=none,mount_tag=xchg \ -virtfs local,path=''${SHARED_DIR:-$TMPDIR/xchg},security_model=none,mount_tag=shared \ ${if cfg.useBootLoader then '' -drive index=0,id=drive1,file=$NIX_DISK_IMAGE,if=${cfg.qemu.diskInterface},cache=writeback,werror=report \ -drive index=1,id=drive2,file=$TMPDIR/disk.img,media=disk \ ${if cfg.useEFIBoot then '' -pflash $TMPDIR/bios.bin \ '' else '' ''} '' else '' -drive index=0,id=drive1,file=$NIX_DISK_IMAGE,if=${cfg.qemu.diskInterface},cache=writeback,werror=report \ -kernel ${config.system.build.toplevel}/kernel \ -initrd ${config.system.build.toplevel}/initrd \ -append "$(cat ${config.system.build.toplevel}/kernel-params) init=${config.system.build.toplevel}/init regInfo=${regInfo} ${kernelConsole} $QEMU_KERNEL_PARAMS" \ ''} \ $extraDisks \ ${qemuGraphics} \ ${toString config.virtualisation.qemu.options} \ $QEMU_OPTS \ $@ ''; regInfo = pkgs.runCommand "reginfo" { exportReferencesGraph = map (x: [("closure-" + baseNameOf x) x]) config.virtualisation.pathsInNixDB; buildInputs = [ pkgs.perl ]; preferLocalBuild = true; } '' printRegistration=1 perl ${pkgs.pathsFromGraph} closure-* > $out ''; # Generate a hard disk image containing a /boot partition and GRUB # in the MBR. Used when the `useBootLoader' option is set. # FIXME: use nixos/lib/make-disk-image.nix. bootDisk = pkgs.vmTools.runInLinuxVM ( pkgs.runCommand "nixos-boot-disk" { preVM = '' mkdir $out diskImage=$out/disk.img bootFlash=$out/bios.bin ${pkgs.qemu_kvm}/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow2 $diskImage "40M" ${if cfg.useEFIBoot then '' cp ${pkgs.OVMF-CSM}/FV/OVMF.fd $bootFlash chmod 0644 $bootFlash '' else '' ''} ''; buildInputs = [ pkgs.utillinux ]; QEMU_OPTS = if cfg.useEFIBoot then "-pflash $out/bios.bin -nographic -serial pty" else "-nographic -serial pty"; } '' # Create a /boot EFI partition with 40M ${pkgs.gptfdisk}/bin/sgdisk -G /dev/vda ${pkgs.gptfdisk}/bin/sgdisk -a 1 -n 1:34:2047 -c 1:"BIOS Boot Partition" -t 1:ef02 /dev/vda ${pkgs.gptfdisk}/bin/sgdisk -a 512 -N 2 -c 2:"EFI System" -t 2:ef00 /dev/vda ${pkgs.gptfdisk}/bin/sgdisk -A 1:set:1 /dev/vda ${pkgs.gptfdisk}/bin/sgdisk -A 2:set:2 /dev/vda ${pkgs.gptfdisk}/bin/sgdisk -h 2 /dev/vda ${pkgs.gptfdisk}/bin/sgdisk -C /dev/vda ${pkgs.utillinux}/bin/sfdisk /dev/vda -A 2 . /sys/class/block/vda2/uevent mknod /dev/vda2 b $MAJOR $MINOR . /sys/class/block/vda/uevent ${pkgs.dosfstools}/bin/mkfs.fat -F16 /dev/vda2 export MTOOLS_SKIP_CHECK=1 ${pkgs.mtools}/bin/mlabel -i /dev/vda2 ::boot # Mount /boot; load necessary modules first. ${pkgs.kmod}/bin/insmod ${pkgs.linux}/lib/modules/*/kernel/fs/nls/nls_cp437.ko.xz || true ${pkgs.kmod}/bin/insmod ${pkgs.linux}/lib/modules/*/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-1.ko.xz || true ${pkgs.kmod}/bin/insmod ${pkgs.linux}/lib/modules/*/kernel/fs/fat/fat.ko.xz || true ${pkgs.kmod}/bin/insmod ${pkgs.linux}/lib/modules/*/kernel/fs/fat/vfat.ko.xz || true ${pkgs.kmod}/bin/insmod ${pkgs.linux}/lib/modules/*/kernel/fs/efivarfs/efivarfs.ko.xz || true mkdir /boot mount /dev/vda2 /boot # This is needed for GRUB 0.97, which doesn't know about virtio devices. mkdir /boot/grub echo '(hd0) /dev/vda' > /boot/grub/device.map # Install GRUB and generate the GRUB boot menu. touch /etc/NIXOS mkdir -p /nix/var/nix/profiles ${config.system.build.toplevel}/bin/switch-to-configuration boot umount /boot '' # */ ); in { imports = [ ../profiles/qemu-guest.nix ]; options = { virtualisation.memorySize = mkOption { default = 384; description = '' Memory size (M) of virtual machine. ''; }; virtualisation.diskSize = mkOption { default = 512; description = '' Disk size (M) of virtual machine. ''; }; virtualisation.diskImage = mkOption { default = "./${vmName}.qcow2"; description = '' Path to the disk image containing the root filesystem. The image will be created on startup if it does not exist. ''; }; virtualisation.bootDevice = mkOption { type = types.str; example = "/dev/vda"; description = '' The disk to be used for the root filesystem. ''; }; virtualisation.emptyDiskImages = mkOption { default = []; type = types.listOf types.int; description = '' Additional disk images to provide to the VM. The value is a list of size in megabytes of each disk. These disks are writeable by the VM. ''; }; virtualisation.graphics = mkOption { default = true; description = '' Whether to run QEMU with a graphics window, or access the guest computer serial port through the host tty. ''; }; virtualisation.pathsInNixDB = mkOption { default = []; description = '' The list of paths whose closure is registered in the Nix database in the VM. All other paths in the host Nix store appear in the guest Nix store as well, but are considered garbage (because they are not registered in the Nix database in the guest). ''; }; virtualisation.vlans = mkOption { default = [ 1 ]; example = [ 1 2 ]; description = '' Virtual networks to which the VM is connected. Each number N in this list causes the VM to have a virtual Ethernet interface attached to a separate virtual network on which it will be assigned IP address 192.168.N.M, where M is the index of this VM in the list of VMs. ''; }; virtualisation.writableStore = mkOption { default = false; description = '' If enabled, the Nix store in the VM is made writable by layering a unionfs-fuse/tmpfs filesystem on top of the host's Nix store. ''; }; virtualisation.writableStoreUseTmpfs = mkOption { default = true; description = '' Use a tmpfs for the writable store instead of writing to the VM's own filesystem. ''; }; networking.primaryIPAddress = mkOption { default = ""; internal = true; description = "Primary IP address used in /etc/hosts."; }; virtualisation.qemu = { program = mkOption { type = types.path; default = "${pkgs.qemu_kvm}/bin/qemu-kvm"; defaultText = "\${pkgs.qemu_kvm}/bin/qemu-kvm"; example = literalExample "\${pkgs.qemu_test}/bin/qemu-kvm"; description = "The QEMU variant used to start the VM."; }; options = mkOption { type = types.listOf types.unspecified; default = []; example = [ "-vga std" ]; description = "Options passed to QEMU."; }; networkingOptions = mkOption { default = [ "-net nic,vlan=0,model=virtio" "-net user,vlan=0\${QEMU_NET_OPTS:+,$QEMU_NET_OPTS}" ]; type = types.listOf types.str; description = '' Networking-related command-line options that should be passed to qemu. The default is to use userspace networking (slirp). If you override this option, be advised to keep ''${QEMU_NET_OPTS:+,$QEMU_NET_OPTS} (as seen in the default) to keep the default runtime behaviour. ''; }; diskInterface = mkOption { default = "virtio"; example = "scsi"; type = types.str; description = '' The interface used for the virtual hard disks (virtio or scsi). ''; }; }; virtualisation.useBootLoader = mkOption { default = false; description = '' If enabled, the virtual machine will be booted using the regular boot loader (i.e., GRUB 1 or 2). This allows testing of the boot loader. If disabled (the default), the VM directly boots the NixOS kernel and initial ramdisk, bypassing the boot loader altogether. ''; }; virtualisation.useEFIBoot = mkOption { default = false; description = '' If enabled, the virtual machine will provide a EFI boot manager. useEFIBoot is ignored if useBootLoader == false. ''; }; }; config = { boot.loader.grub.device = mkVMOverride cfg.bootDevice; boot.initrd.extraUtilsCommands = '' # We need mke2fs in the initrd. copy_bin_and_libs ${pkgs.e2fsprogs}/bin/mke2fs ''; boot.initrd.postDeviceCommands = '' # If the disk image appears to be empty, run mke2fs to # initialise. FSTYPE=$(blkid -o value -s TYPE ${cfg.bootDevice} || true) if test -z "$FSTYPE"; then mke2fs -t ext4 ${cfg.bootDevice} fi ''; boot.initrd.postMountCommands = '' # Mark this as a NixOS machine. mkdir -p $targetRoot/etc echo -n > $targetRoot/etc/NIXOS # Fix the permissions on /tmp. chmod 1777 $targetRoot/tmp mkdir -p $targetRoot/boot ''; # After booting, register the closure of the paths in # `virtualisation.pathsInNixDB' in the Nix database in the VM. This # allows Nix operations to work in the VM. The path to the # registration file is passed through the kernel command line to # allow `system.build.toplevel' to be included. (If we had a direct # reference to ${regInfo} here, then we would get a cyclic # dependency.) boot.postBootCommands = '' if [[ "$(cat /proc/cmdline)" =~ regInfo=([^ ]*) ]]; then ${config.nix.package.out}/bin/nix-store --load-db < ''${BASH_REMATCH[1]} fi ''; boot.initrd.availableKernelModules = optional (cfg.qemu.diskInterface == "scsi") "sym53c8xx"; virtualisation.bootDevice = mkDefault (if cfg.qemu.diskInterface == "scsi" then "/dev/sda" else "/dev/vda"); virtualisation.pathsInNixDB = [ config.system.build.toplevel ]; virtualisation.qemu.options = [ "-vga std" "-usbdevice tablet" ]; # Mount the host filesystem via 9P, and bind-mount the Nix store # of the host into our own filesystem. We use mkVMOverride to # allow this module to be applied to "normal" NixOS system # configuration, where the regular value for the `fileSystems' # attribute should be disregarded for the purpose of building a VM # test image (since those filesystems don't exist in the VM). fileSystems = mkVMOverride ( { "/".device = cfg.bootDevice; ${if cfg.writableStore then "/nix/.ro-store" else "/nix/store"} = { device = "store"; fsType = "9p"; options = [ "trans=virtio" "version=9p2000.L" "cache=loose" ]; neededForBoot = true; }; "/tmp/xchg" = { device = "xchg"; fsType = "9p"; options = [ "trans=virtio" "version=9p2000.L" "cache=loose" ]; neededForBoot = true; }; "/tmp/shared" = { device = "shared"; fsType = "9p"; options = [ "trans=virtio" "version=9p2000.L" ]; neededForBoot = true; }; } // optionalAttrs cfg.writableStore { "/nix/store" = { fsType = "unionfs-fuse"; device = "unionfs"; options = [ "allow_other" "cow" "nonempty" "chroot=/mnt-root" "max_files=32768" "hide_meta_files" "dirs=/nix/.rw-store=rw:/nix/.ro-store=ro" ]; }; } // optionalAttrs (cfg.writableStore && cfg.writableStoreUseTmpfs) { "/nix/.rw-store" = { fsType = "tmpfs"; options = [ "mode=0755" ]; neededForBoot = true; }; } // optionalAttrs cfg.useBootLoader { "/boot" = { device = "/dev/vdb2"; fsType = "vfat"; options = [ "ro" ]; noCheck = true; # fsck fails on a r/o filesystem }; }); swapDevices = mkVMOverride [ ]; boot.initrd.luks.devices = mkVMOverride {}; # Don't run ntpd in the guest. It should get the correct time from KVM. services.timesyncd.enable = false; system.build.vm = pkgs.runCommand "nixos-vm" { preferLocalBuild = true; } '' mkdir -p $out/bin ln -s ${config.system.build.toplevel} $out/system ln -s ${pkgs.writeScript "run-nixos-vm" startVM} $out/bin/run-${vmName}-vm ''; # When building a regular system configuration, override whatever # video driver the host uses. services.xserver.videoDrivers = mkVMOverride [ "modesetting" ]; services.xserver.defaultDepth = mkVMOverride 0; services.xserver.resolutions = mkVMOverride [ { x = 1024; y = 768; } ]; services.xserver.monitorSection = '' # Set a higher refresh rate so that resolutions > 800x600 work. HorizSync 30-140 VertRefresh 50-160 ''; # Wireless won't work in the VM. networking.wireless.enable = mkVMOverride false; networking.connman.enable = mkVMOverride false; # Speed up booting by not waiting for ARP. networking.dhcpcd.extraConfig = "noarp"; networking.usePredictableInterfaceNames = false; system.requiredKernelConfig = with config.lib.kernelConfig; [ (isEnabled "VIRTIO_BLK") (isEnabled "VIRTIO_PCI") (isEnabled "VIRTIO_NET") (isEnabled "EXT4_FS") (isYes "BLK_DEV") (isYes "PCI") (isYes "EXPERIMENTAL") (isYes "NETDEVICES") (isYes "NET_CORE") (isYes "INET") (isYes "NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS") ] ++ optional (!cfg.graphics) [ (isYes "SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE") (isYes "SERIAL_8250") ]; }; }