Domen Kožar

Move Virtualbox base image to nixpkgs for quicker iterations

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We've done the same before for Amazon.

Virtualbox error message is confusing if virtualization driver is busy

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To reproduce: - start a machine via qemu - deploy a machine with nixops via virtualbox ``` buggy> creating VirtualBox VM... buggy> Virtual machine 'nixops-8f06738f-234c-11e6-982e-54ee7542395c-buggy' is created and registered. buggy>...

Recommend using callHackage

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Reasons: - no need to keep cabal and generated expressions in sync - https://github.com/NixOS/cabal2nix/issues/217

syntax error near unexpected token `0022'

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``` agent> creating missing directories... done. agent> bind-mounting files in /etc... resolv.conf...passwd...group...done. agent> detecting hardware... agent> /usr/bin/nixos-generate-config: line 3: use: command not found agent> /usr/bin/nixos-generate-config: line 4: use: command not...

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/spot-requests.html#fixed-duration-spot-instances ``` You can specify a duration of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 hours. The price that you pay depends on the specified duration. To view the current...

Deleting non-existing elastic ip fails

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``` $ nixops deploy -d csl-testnet-0.2 --kill-obsolete resource ‘nodeip13’ is obsolete error: EC2ResponseError: 400 Bad Request InvalidParameterValueInvalid value 'None' for PublicIp. Not a valid IPv4 address.f060863e-68b1-4be3-ba5c-9054cf22bb8c ```

Currently setting a rule with just `sourceIp = "0.0.0.0/0";` fails into `'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'`. Nix needs to require that either `fromPort`/`toPort` or `typeNumber`/`codeNumber` need to be set.

So if you provision a security group in region A and try to use it on instance in region B you'd get: ``` node......................> got (possibly transient) EC2 error code...

SEO for old releases links (manual, ISO, etc)

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A lot of the links that are ranking on Google for nixos seem to be pointing to dead pages on old versions of the manual. See https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/1103 for deeper explanation.

stable channel

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For sake of those just wanting to always be on latest stable, it would be great if there was `nixpkgs-stable` that would point to `nixos-22-5` channel for example. Due to...