# Configuration for Amazon EC2 instances. (Note that this file is a # misnomer - it should be "amazon-config.nix" or so, not # "amazon-image.nix", since it's used not only to build images but # also to reconfigure instances. However, we can't rename it because # existing "configuration.nix" files on EC2 instances refer to it.) { config, lib, pkgs, ... }: with lib; let cfg = config.ec2; in { imports = [ ../profiles/headless.nix ./ec2-data.nix ./amazon-grow-partition.nix ]; config = { fileSystems."/" = { device = "/dev/disk/by-label/nixos"; autoResize = true; }; boot.initrd.kernelModules = [ "xen-blkfront" ]; boot.kernelModules = [ "xen-netfront" ]; boot.kernelParams = mkIf cfg.hvm [ "console=ttyS0" ]; # Prevent the nouveau kernel module from being loaded, as it # interferes with the nvidia/nvidia-uvm modules needed for CUDA. boot.blacklistedKernelModules = [ "nouveau" ]; # Generate a GRUB menu. Amazon's pv-grub uses this to boot our kernel/initrd. boot.loader.grub.version = if cfg.hvm then 2 else 1; boot.loader.grub.device = if cfg.hvm then "/dev/xvda" else "nodev"; boot.loader.grub.timeout = 0; boot.loader.grub.extraPerEntryConfig = "root (hd0${lib.optionalString cfg.hvm ",0"})"; boot.initrd.postDeviceCommands = '' # Force udev to exit to prevent random "Device or resource busy # while trying to open /dev/xvda" errors from fsck. udevadm control --exit || true kill -9 -1 ''; # Mount all formatted ephemeral disks and activate all swap devices. # We cannot do this with the ‘fileSystems’ and ‘swapDevices’ options # because the set of devices is dependent on the instance type # (e.g. "m1.large" has one ephemeral filesystem and one swap device, # while "m1.large" has two ephemeral filesystems and no swap # devices). Also, put /tmp and /var on /disk0, since it has a lot # more space than the root device. Similarly, "move" /nix to /disk0 # by layering a unionfs-fuse mount on top of it so we have a lot more space for # Nix operations. boot.initrd.postMountCommands = '' diskNr=0 diskForUnionfs= for device in /dev/xvd[abcde]*; do if [ "$device" = /dev/xvda -o "$device" = /dev/xvda1 ]; then continue; fi fsType=$(blkid -o value -s TYPE "$device" || true) if [ "$fsType" = swap ]; then echo "activating swap device $device..." swapon "$device" || true elif [ "$fsType" = ext3 ]; then mp="/disk$diskNr" diskNr=$((diskNr + 1)) echo "mounting $device on $mp..." if mountFS "$device" "$mp" "" ext3; then if [ -z "$diskForUnionfs" ]; then diskForUnionfs="$mp"; fi fi else echo "skipping unknown device type $device" fi done if [ -n "$diskForUnionfs" ]; then mkdir -m 755 -p $targetRoot/$diskForUnionfs/root mkdir -m 1777 -p $targetRoot/$diskForUnionfs/root/tmp $targetRoot/tmp mount --bind $targetRoot/$diskForUnionfs/root/tmp $targetRoot/tmp if [ ! -e $targetRoot/.ebs ]; then mkdir -m 755 -p $targetRoot/$diskForUnionfs/root/var $targetRoot/var mount --bind $targetRoot/$diskForUnionfs/root/var $targetRoot/var mkdir -p /unionfs-chroot/ro-nix mount --rbind $targetRoot/nix /unionfs-chroot/ro-nix mkdir -m 755 -p $targetRoot/$diskForUnionfs/root/nix mkdir -p /unionfs-chroot/rw-nix mount --rbind $targetRoot/$diskForUnionfs/root/nix /unionfs-chroot/rw-nix unionfs -o allow_other,cow,nonempty,chroot=/unionfs-chroot,max_files=32768 /rw-nix=RW:/ro-nix=RO $targetRoot/nix fi fi ''; boot.initrd.extraUtilsCommands = '' # We need swapon in the initrd. copy_bin_and_libs ${pkgs.utillinux}/sbin/swapon ''; # Don't put old configurations in the GRUB menu. The user has no # way to select them anyway. boot.loader.grub.configurationLimit = 0; # Allow root logins only using the SSH key that the user specified # at instance creation time. services.openssh.enable = true; services.openssh.permitRootLogin = "without-password"; # Force getting the hostname from EC2. networking.hostName = mkDefault ""; # Always include cryptsetup so that Charon can use it. environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.cryptsetup ]; boot.initrd.supportedFilesystems = [ "unionfs-fuse" ]; }; }