NixOS VM on Mac Setup

Mitchell Hashimoto · 31.4K views · 2021-10-25 · 9:03

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Overview

Mitchell Hashimoto walks through his setup for running a NixOS virtual machine on a Mac as his development environment, with a config repo on GitHub.

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HN points to it as a practical reference for the Linux-VM-on-Mac workflow and as an entry point to NixOS.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2022–2024

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Linux & open-source ecosystems Operating systems & kernels Testing, debugging & developer tools

What people said

indiv0 · 2022-04 · Recommendation
Just run Linux in a VM! It's my preferred workflow nowadays. See: [LINK] [VIDEO] Only real limitations are lack of ML because no server/desktop-grade GPU and some missing ARM-based docker containers. But the latter is slowly being resolved and the former isn't gonna happen on a laptop anyways.
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xyst · 2024-03 · Reference
Personally been working on replacing “brew” with “nix” for package management. Eventually using VMs spun up with qemu to emulate nixOS on my Mac for primary dev environment. Similar to hashicorp founder setup found here (except hoping to not use “parallels or vm ware fusion”: [VIDEO]
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bsnnkv · 2022-11 · Reference
My general setup mirrors this[1] pretty closely, though of course on Windows I can just use WSL2. [1]: [VIDEO]
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