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Pascal Bach ec9792a3f5 nixos/virtualbox-guest: add vmware driver
VMSGVA is recommended by virtualbox for Linux clients.
Compared to VBoxVGA and VBoxSVGA it also supports 3D acceleration.

Adding the driver makes nixos work with all three supported graphics card
types.
2020-06-17 18:43:27 +02:00

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# Module for VirtualBox guests.
{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
with lib;
let
cfg = config.virtualisation.virtualbox.guest;
kernel = config.boot.kernelPackages;
in
{
###### interface
options.virtualisation.virtualbox.guest = {
enable = mkOption {
default = false;
type = types.bool;
description = "Whether to enable the VirtualBox service and other guest additions.";
};
x11 = mkOption {
default = true;
type = types.bool;
description = "Whether to enable x11 graphics";
};
};
###### implementation
config = mkIf cfg.enable (mkMerge [{
assertions = [{
assertion = pkgs.stdenv.isi686 || pkgs.stdenv.isx86_64;
message = "Virtualbox not currently supported on ${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system}";
}];
environment.systemPackages = [ kernel.virtualboxGuestAdditions ];
boot.extraModulePackages = [ kernel.virtualboxGuestAdditions ];
boot.supportedFilesystems = [ "vboxsf" ];
boot.initrd.supportedFilesystems = [ "vboxsf" ];
users.groups.vboxsf.gid = config.ids.gids.vboxsf;
systemd.services.virtualbox =
{ description = "VirtualBox Guest Services";
wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
requires = [ "dev-vboxguest.device" ];
after = [ "dev-vboxguest.device" ];
unitConfig.ConditionVirtualization = "oracle";
serviceConfig.ExecStart = "@${kernel.virtualboxGuestAdditions}/bin/VBoxService VBoxService --foreground";
};
services.udev.extraRules =
''
# /dev/vboxuser is necessary for VBoxClient to work. Maybe we
# should restrict this to logged-in users.
KERNEL=="vboxuser", OWNER="root", GROUP="root", MODE="0666"
# Allow systemd dependencies on vboxguest.
SUBSYSTEM=="misc", KERNEL=="vboxguest", TAG+="systemd"
'';
} (mkIf cfg.x11 {
services.xserver.videoDrivers = mkOverride 50 [ "vmware" "virtualbox" "modesetting" ];
services.xserver.config =
''
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "VBoxMouse"
Driver "vboxmouse"
EndSection
'';
services.xserver.serverLayoutSection =
''
InputDevice "VBoxMouse"
'';
services.xserver.displayManager.sessionCommands =
''
PATH=${makeBinPath [ pkgs.gnugrep pkgs.which pkgs.xorg.xorgserver.out ]}:$PATH \
${kernel.virtualboxGuestAdditions}/bin/VBoxClient-all
'';
})]);
}