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It would be nice to have support for [Parallels](https://www.parallels.com/).

Sohalt

Override disk image size and squashfs compression

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I'm building a fairly large image for testing in VM and run into some issues: The qcow and raw formats fail with the error below, probably because the disk size...

copy

overriding system.build.raw doesn't have any effect

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building with format `raw` while trying to override the image size: ```nix system.build.raw.diskSize = mkForce 4096; ``` Doesn't have any effect on the disk size.

DavHau

Support additional format search paths

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via the `NIXOS_GENERATORS_FORMAT_SEARCH_PATH` environment variable and `--format-search-path` CLI option, as proposed in #147. Additionally, introduce the `--show-format-search-path` option, which causes `nixos-generate` to print the list of paths it will search...

tomeon

Proposal/RFC: support runtime extension of format file search path (permit adding directories other than `<store-path>/share/nixos-generator`)

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nixos-generators-search-path-proposal ## Proposal Support runtime extension of the format file search path via environment variables and CLI options. ## Motivation Provide a mechanism for end users and third parties to...

tomeon

Support for lima

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It would be cool to build a VM via nixos-generators and then run it with [lima](https://github.com/lima-vm/lima) on MacOS

fionera

qcow not working on aarch64

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Hi. Generating qcow/raw not working on aarch64: cmd: ``` nix run github:nix-community/nixos-generators -- -f qcow -I nixpkgs=channel:nixos-21.11 ``` aarch64 ``` [...] copying path '/nix/store/ja4skmlpag15hgqpqd40klv9zx4vf0nw-nixos-system-nixos-21.11.337209.c254b8c915a' to 'local'... copying channel... installation finished!...

patryk4815

raw-efi format seems to be broken

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Using flake & numtide/flake-utils: ```nix (system: let pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system}; in { packages.rawBootstrap = inputs.nixos-generators.nixosGenerate { inherit pkgs; format = "raw-efi"; modules = [ ./systems/_common/nix.nix ]; }; }) ``` `nix...

mikroskeem

Unsupported hardware family

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see: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/virtualization-ova-ovf-esxi-support-extended-ova-customization/7536 When trying to provision a VM on VMware using a `.ova` image generated with nixos-generators, I get a `Unsupported hardware family 'virtualbox-2.2'.` error. ``` $ cat flake.nix {...

con-f-use

Expose nixdeploy as nix function in flake for automatic builds

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Basically being able to do something like this ```nix outputs = { nixdeploy, nixpkgs }: { defaultPackage = nixdeploy.format.lxc { configuration = ./configuration.nix; nixpkgs = nixpkgs; }; } ```

mkg20001