# 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, options, ... }:
with lib;
with import ../../lib/qemu-flags.nix { inherit pkgs; };
let
cfg = config.virtualisation;
qemu = cfg.qemu.package;
consoles = lib.concatMapStringsSep " " (c: "console=${c}") cfg.qemu.consoles;
driveOpts = { ... }: {
options = {
file = mkOption {
type = types.str;
description = "The file image used for this drive.";
};
driveExtraOpts = mkOption {
type = types.attrsOf types.str;
default = {};
description = "Extra options passed to drive flag.";
};
deviceExtraOpts = mkOption {
type = types.attrsOf types.str;
default = {};
description = "Extra options passed to device flag.";
};
name = mkOption {
type = types.nullOr types.str;
default = null;
description =
"A name for the drive. Must be unique in the drives list. Not passed to qemu.";
};
};
};
driveCmdline = idx: { file, driveExtraOpts, deviceExtraOpts, ... }:
let
drvId = "drive${toString idx}";
mkKeyValue = generators.mkKeyValueDefault {} "=";
mkOpts = opts: concatStringsSep "," (mapAttrsToList mkKeyValue opts);
driveOpts = mkOpts (driveExtraOpts // {
index = idx;
id = drvId;
"if" = "none";
inherit file;
});
deviceOpts = mkOpts (deviceExtraOpts // {
drive = drvId;
});
device =
if cfg.qemu.diskInterface == "scsi" then
"-device lsi53c895a -device scsi-hd,${deviceOpts}"
else
"-device virtio-blk-pci,${deviceOpts}";
in
"-drive ${driveOpts} ${device}";
drivesCmdLine = drives: concatStringsSep " " (imap1 driveCmdline drives);
# Creates a device name from a 1-based a numerical index, e.g.
# * `driveDeviceName 1` -> `/dev/vda`
# * `driveDeviceName 2` -> `/dev/vdb`
driveDeviceName = idx:
let letter = elemAt lowerChars (idx - 1);
in if cfg.qemu.diskInterface == "scsi" then
"/dev/sd${letter}"
else
"/dev/vd${letter}";
lookupDriveDeviceName = driveName: driveList:
(findSingle (drive: drive.name == driveName)
(throw "Drive ${driveName} not found")
(throw "Multiple drives named ${driveName}") driveList).device;
addDeviceNames =
imap1 (idx: drive: drive // { device = driveDeviceName idx; });
efiPrefix =
if (pkgs.stdenv.isi686 || pkgs.stdenv.isx86_64) then "${pkgs.OVMF.fd}/FV/OVMF"
else if pkgs.stdenv.isAarch64 then "${pkgs.OVMF.fd}/FV/AAVMF"
else throw "No EFI firmware available for platform";
efiFirmware = "${efiPrefix}_CODE.fd";
efiVarsDefault = "${efiPrefix}_VARS.fd";
# Shell script to start the VM.
startVM =
''
#! ${pkgs.runtimeShell}
NIX_DISK_IMAGE=$(readlink -f "''${NIX_DISK_IMAGE:-${config.virtualisation.diskImage}}")
if ! test -e "$NIX_DISK_IMAGE"; then
${qemu}/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow2 "$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.
${qemu}/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow2 -F qcow2 -b ${bootDisk}/disk.img "$TMPDIR/disk.img" || exit 1
NIX_EFI_VARS=$(readlink -f "''${NIX_EFI_VARS:-${cfg.efiVars}}")
${if cfg.useEFIBoot then ''
# VM needs writable EFI vars
if ! test -e "$NIX_EFI_VARS"; then
cp ${bootDisk}/efi-vars.fd "$NIX_EFI_VARS" || exit 1
chmod 0644 "$NIX_EFI_VARS" || exit 1
fi
'' else ""}
'' else ""}
cd "$TMPDIR" || exit 1
idx=0
${flip concatMapStrings cfg.emptyDiskImages (size: ''
if ! test -e "empty$idx.qcow2"; then
${qemu}/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow2 "empty$idx.qcow2" "${toString size}M"
fi
idx=$((idx + 1))
'')}
# Start QEMU.
exec ${qemuBinary qemu} \
-name ${config.system.name} \
-m ${toString config.virtualisation.memorySize} \
-smp ${toString config.virtualisation.cores} \
-device virtio-rng-pci \
${concatStringsSep " " config.virtualisation.qemu.networkingOptions} \
-virtfs local,path=/nix/store,security_model=none,mount_tag=store \
-virtfs local,path=$TMPDIR/xchg,security_model=none,mount_tag=xchg \
-virtfs local,path=''${SHARED_DIR:-$TMPDIR/xchg},security_model=none,mount_tag=shared \
${drivesCmdLine config.virtualisation.qemu.drives} \
${toString config.virtualisation.qemu.options} \
$QEMU_OPTS \
"$@"
'';
regInfo = pkgs.closureInfo { rootPaths = config.virtualisation.pathsInNixDB; };
# Generate a hard disk image containing a /boot partition and GRUB
# in the MBR. Used when the `useBootLoader' option is set.
# Uses `runInLinuxVM` to create the image in a throwaway VM.
# See note [Disk layout with `useBootLoader`].
# FIXME: use nixos/lib/make-disk-image.nix.
bootDisk =
pkgs.vmTools.runInLinuxVM (
pkgs.runCommand "nixos-boot-disk"
{ preVM =
''
mkdir $out
diskImage=$out/disk.img
${qemu}/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow2 $diskImage "60M"
${if cfg.useEFIBoot then ''
efiVars=$out/efi-vars.fd
cp ${efiVarsDefault} $efiVars
chmod 0644 $efiVars
'' else ""}
'';
buildInputs = [ pkgs.util-linux ];
QEMU_OPTS = "-nographic -serial stdio -monitor none"
+ lib.optionalString cfg.useEFIBoot (
" -drive if=pflash,format=raw,unit=0,readonly=on,file=${efiFirmware}"
+ " -drive if=pflash,format=raw,unit=1,file=$efiVars");
}
''
# Create a /boot EFI partition with 60M and arbitrary but fixed GUIDs for reproducibility
${pkgs.gptfdisk}/bin/sgdisk \
--set-alignment=1 --new=1:34:2047 --change-name=1:BIOSBootPartition --typecode=1:ef02 \
--set-alignment=512 --largest-new=2 --change-name=2:EFISystem --typecode=2:ef00 \
--attributes=1:set:1 \
--attributes=2:set:2 \
--disk-guid=97FD5997-D90B-4AA3-8D16-C1723AEA73C1 \
--partition-guid=1:1C06F03B-704E-4657-B9CD-681A087A2FDC \
--partition-guid=2:970C694F-AFD0-4B99-B750-CDB7A329AB6F \
--hybrid 2 \
--recompute-chs /dev/vda
${optionalString (config.boot.loader.grub.device != "/dev/vda")
# In this throwaway VM, we only have the /dev/vda disk, but the
# actual VM described by `config` (used by `switch-to-configuration`
# below) may set `boot.loader.grub.device` to a different device
# that's nonexistent in the throwaway VM.
# Create a symlink for that device, so that the `grub-install`
# by `switch-to-configuration` will hit /dev/vda anyway.
''
ln -s /dev/vda ${config.boot.loader.grub.device}
''
}
${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
${optionalString config.boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables ''
mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
''}
# 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
# This is needed for systemd-boot to find ESP, and udev is not available here to create this
mkdir -p /dev/block
ln -s /dev/vda2 /dev/block/254:2
# Set up system profile (normally done by nixos-rebuild / nix-env --set)
mkdir -p /nix/var/nix/profiles
ln -s ${config.system.build.toplevel} /nix/var/nix/profiles/system-1-link
ln -s /nix/var/nix/profiles/system-1-link /nix/var/nix/profiles/system
# Install bootloader
touch /etc/NIXOS
export NIXOS_INSTALL_BOOTLOADER=1
${config.system.build.toplevel}/bin/switch-to-configuration boot
umount /boot
'' # */
);
in
{
imports = [
../profiles/qemu-guest.nix
];
options = {
virtualisation.fileSystems = options.fileSystems;
virtualisation.memorySize =
mkOption {
default = 384;
description =
''
Memory size (M) of virtual machine.
'';
};
virtualisation.msize =
mkOption {
type = types.ints.positive;
default = 16384;
description =
''
The msize (maximum packet size) option passed to 9p file systems, in
bytes. Increasing this should increase performance significantly,
at the cost of higher RAM usage.
'';
};
virtualisation.diskSize =
mkOption {
default = 512;
description =
''
Disk size (M) of virtual machine.
'';
};
virtualisation.diskImage =
mkOption {
default = "./${config.system.name}.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 in nographic mode.
Serial console will be enabled on both settings, but this will
change the preferred console.
'';
};
virtualisation.cores =
mkOption {
default = 1;
type = types.int;
description =
''
Specify the number of cores the guest is permitted to use.
The number can be higher than the available cores on the
host system.
'';
};
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 = true; # FIXME
description =
''
If enabled, the Nix store in the VM is made writable by
layering an overlay 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 = {
package =
mkOption {
type = types.package;
default = pkgs.qemu;
example = "pkgs.qemu_test";
description = "QEMU package to use.";
};
options =
mkOption {
type = types.listOf types.unspecified;
default = [];
example = [ "-vga std" ];
description = "Options passed to QEMU.";
};
consoles = mkOption {
type = types.listOf types.str;
default = let
consoles = [ "${qemuSerialDevice},115200n8" "tty0" ];
in if cfg.graphics then consoles else reverseList consoles;
example = [ "console=tty1" ];
description = ''
The output console devices to pass to the kernel command line via the
console parameter, the primary console is the last
item of this list.
By default it enables both serial console and
tty0. The preferred console (last one) is based on
the value of .
'';
};
networkingOptions =
mkOption {
default = [
"-net nic,netdev=user.0,model=virtio"
"-netdev user,id=user.0\${QEMU_NET_OPTS:+,$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.
'';
};
drives =
mkOption {
type = types.listOf (types.submodule driveOpts);
description = "Drives passed to qemu.";
apply = addDeviceNames;
};
diskInterface =
mkOption {
default = "virtio";
example = "scsi";
type = types.enum [ "virtio" "scsi" "ide" ];
description = "The interface used for the virtual hard disks.";
};
guestAgent.enable =
mkOption {
default = true;
type = types.bool;
description = ''
Enable the Qemu guest agent.
'';
};
};
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.
'';
};
virtualisation.efiVars =
mkOption {
default = "./${config.system.name}-efi-vars.fd";
description =
''
Path to nvram image containing UEFI variables. The will be created
on startup if it does not exist.
'';
};
virtualisation.bios =
mkOption {
default = null;
type = types.nullOr types.package;
description =
''
An alternate BIOS (such as qboot) with which to start the VM.
Should contain a file named bios.bin.
If null, QEMU's builtin SeaBIOS will be used.
'';
};
};
config = {
# Note [Disk layout with `useBootLoader`]
#
# If `useBootLoader = true`, we configure 2 drives:
# `/dev/?da` for the root disk, and `/dev/?db` for the boot disk
# which has the `/boot` partition and the boot loader.
# Concretely:
#
# * The second drive's image `disk.img` is created in `bootDisk = ...`
# using a throwaway VM. Note that there the disk is always `/dev/vda`,
# even though in the final VM it will be at `/dev/*b`.
# * The disks are attached in `virtualisation.qemu.drives`.
# Their order makes them appear as devices `a`, `b`, etc.
# * `fileSystems."/boot"` is adjusted to be on device `b`.
# If `useBootLoader`, GRUB goes to the second disk, see
# note [Disk layout with `useBootLoader`].
boot.loader.grub.device = mkVMOverride (
if cfg.useBootLoader
then driveDeviceName 2 # second disk
else 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
${optionalString cfg.writableStore ''
echo "mounting overlay filesystem on /nix/store..."
mkdir -p 0755 $targetRoot/nix/.rw-store/store $targetRoot/nix/.rw-store/work $targetRoot/nix/store
mount -t overlay overlay $targetRoot/nix/store \
-o lowerdir=$targetRoot/nix/.ro-store,upperdir=$targetRoot/nix/.rw-store/store,workdir=$targetRoot/nix/.rw-store/work || fail
''}
'';
# 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.writableStore "overlay"
++ optional (cfg.qemu.diskInterface == "scsi") "sym53c8xx";
virtualisation.bootDevice = mkDefault (driveDeviceName 1);
virtualisation.pathsInNixDB = [ config.system.build.toplevel ];
# FIXME: Consolidate this one day.
virtualisation.qemu.options = mkMerge [
(mkIf (pkgs.stdenv.isi686 || pkgs.stdenv.isx86_64) [
"-usb" "-device usb-tablet,bus=usb-bus.0"
])
(mkIf (pkgs.stdenv.isAarch32 || pkgs.stdenv.isAarch64) [
"-device virtio-gpu-pci" "-device usb-ehci,id=usb0" "-device usb-kbd" "-device usb-tablet"
])
(mkIf (!cfg.useBootLoader) [
"-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}/registration ${consoles} $QEMU_KERNEL_PARAMS"''
])
(mkIf cfg.useEFIBoot [
"-drive if=pflash,format=raw,unit=0,readonly,file=${efiFirmware}"
"-drive if=pflash,format=raw,unit=1,file=$NIX_EFI_VARS"
])
(mkIf (cfg.bios != null) [
"-bios ${cfg.bios}/bios.bin"
])
(mkIf (!cfg.graphics) [
"-nographic"
])
];
virtualisation.qemu.drives = mkMerge [
[{
name = "root";
file = ''"$NIX_DISK_IMAGE"'';
driveExtraOpts.cache = "writeback";
driveExtraOpts.werror = "report";
}]
(mkIf cfg.useBootLoader [
# The order of this list determines the device names, see
# note [Disk layout with `useBootLoader`].
{
name = "boot";
file = ''"$TMPDIR"/disk.img'';
driveExtraOpts.media = "disk";
deviceExtraOpts.bootindex = "1";
}
])
(imap0 (idx: _: {
file = "$(pwd)/empty${toString idx}.qcow2";
driveExtraOpts.werror = "report";
}) cfg.emptyDiskImages)
];
# 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 (
cfg.fileSystems //
{ "/".device = cfg.bootDevice;
${if cfg.writableStore then "/nix/.ro-store" else "/nix/store"} =
{ device = "store";
fsType = "9p";
options = [ "trans=virtio" "version=9p2000.L" "cache=loose" ] ++ lib.optional (cfg.msize != null) "msize=${toString cfg.msize}";
neededForBoot = true;
};
"/tmp" = mkIf config.boot.tmpOnTmpfs
{ device = "tmpfs";
fsType = "tmpfs";
neededForBoot = true;
# Sync with systemd's tmp.mount;
options = [ "mode=1777" "strictatime" "nosuid" "nodev" "size=${toString config.boot.tmpOnTmpfsSize}" ];
};
"/tmp/xchg" =
{ device = "xchg";
fsType = "9p";
options = [ "trans=virtio" "version=9p2000.L" ] ++ lib.optional (cfg.msize != null) "msize=${toString cfg.msize}";
neededForBoot = true;
};
"/tmp/shared" =
{ device = "shared";
fsType = "9p";
options = [ "trans=virtio" "version=9p2000.L" ] ++ lib.optional (cfg.msize != null) "msize=${toString cfg.msize}";
neededForBoot = true;
};
} // optionalAttrs (cfg.writableStore && cfg.writableStoreUseTmpfs)
{ "/nix/.rw-store" =
{ fsType = "tmpfs";
options = [ "mode=0755" ];
neededForBoot = true;
};
} // optionalAttrs cfg.useBootLoader
{ "/boot" =
# see note [Disk layout with `useBootLoader`]
{ device = "${lookupDriveDeviceName "boot" cfg.qemu.drives}2"; # 2 for e.g. `vdb2`, as created in `bootDisk`
fsType = "vfat";
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;
services.qemuGuest.enable = cfg.qemu.guestAgent.enable;
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} $out/bin/run-${config.system.name}-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;
services.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")
(isEnabled "NET_9P_VIRTIO")
(isEnabled "9P_FS")
(isYes "BLK_DEV")
(isYes "PCI")
(isYes "NETDEVICES")
(isYes "NET_CORE")
(isYes "INET")
(isYes "NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS")
] ++ optionals (!cfg.graphics) [
(isYes "SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE")
(isYes "SERIAL_8250")
] ++ optionals (cfg.writableStore) [
(isEnabled "OVERLAY_FS")
];
};
}