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nixpkgs/nixos/lib/make-disk-image.nix
Domen Kožar b6363c7bc8 make-disk-image: make store validity fix optional
This is useful for EC2 AMI generation to speedup the process.

In my case it removes 13min out of 45min when generating an image
on EC2.
2016-12-07 13:30:20 +01:00

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{ pkgs
, lib
, # The NixOS configuration to be installed onto the disk image.
config
, # The size of the disk, in megabytes.
diskSize
, # Whether the disk should be partitioned (with a single partition
# containing the root filesystem) or contain the root filesystem
# directly.
partitioned ? true
# Whether to invoke switch-to-configuration boot during image creation
, installBootLoader ? true
, # The root file system type.
fsType ? "ext4"
, # The initial NixOS configuration file to be copied to
# /etc/nixos/configuration.nix.
configFile ? null
, # Shell code executed after the VM has finished.
postVM ? ""
, name ? "nixos-disk-image"
# This prevents errors while checking nix-store validity, see
# https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/1134
, fixValidity ? true
, format ? "raw"
}:
with lib;
pkgs.vmTools.runInLinuxVM (
pkgs.runCommand name
{ preVM =
''
mkdir $out
diskImage=$out/nixos.${if format == "qcow2" then "qcow2" else "img"}
${pkgs.vmTools.qemu}/bin/qemu-img create -f ${format} $diskImage "${toString diskSize}M"
mv closure xchg/
'';
buildInputs = [ pkgs.utillinux pkgs.perl pkgs.e2fsprogs pkgs.parted ];
exportReferencesGraph =
[ "closure" config.system.build.toplevel ];
inherit postVM;
memSize = 1024;
}
''
${if partitioned then ''
# Create a single / partition.
parted /dev/vda mklabel msdos
parted /dev/vda -- mkpart primary ext2 1M -1s
. /sys/class/block/vda1/uevent
mknod /dev/vda1 b $MAJOR $MINOR
rootDisk=/dev/vda1
'' else ''
rootDisk=/dev/vda
''}
# Create an empty filesystem and mount it.
mkfs.${fsType} -L nixos $rootDisk
mkdir /mnt
mount $rootDisk /mnt
# Register the paths in the Nix database.
printRegistration=1 perl ${pkgs.pathsFromGraph} /tmp/xchg/closure | \
${config.nix.package.out}/bin/nix-store --load-db --option build-users-group ""
${if fixValidity then ''
# Add missing size/hash fields to the database. FIXME:
# exportReferencesGraph should provide these directly.
${config.nix.package.out}/bin/nix-store --verify --check-contents --option build-users-group ""
'' else ""}
# In case the bootloader tries to write to /dev/sda
ln -s vda /dev/xvda
ln -s vda /dev/sda
# Install the closure onto the image
USER=root ${config.system.build.nixos-install}/bin/nixos-install \
--closure ${config.system.build.toplevel} \
--no-channel-copy \
--no-root-passwd \
${optionalString (!installBootLoader) "--no-bootloader"}
# Install a configuration.nix.
mkdir -p /mnt/etc/nixos
${optionalString (configFile != null) ''
cp ${configFile} /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix
''}
# Remove /etc/machine-id so that each machine cloning this image will get its own id
rm -f /mnt/etc/machine-id
umount /mnt
# Make sure resize2fs works
${optionalString (fsType == "ext4") ''
tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 $rootDisk
''}
''
)