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    Nixpkgs support for Linux builders running on macOS nix haskellforall.com
    Gabriella439 avatar authored by Gabriella439 5 months ago |
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    puffnfresh avatar puffnfresh 5 months ago | link

    Thanks Gabriella for this work, really awesome! My team will love this.

    I chose LinuxKit in 2017 for the original linuxkit-nix work because it used Hypervisor.framework and there were only a few patches floating around for QEMU. Maybe it wouldn’t have mattered, but I remember LinuxKit being very fast, QEMU was kinda slow and I had to run QEMU as root for any networking.

    QEMU got stable Hypervisor.framework support in 2019. QEMU is definitely a better choice now!

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      Gabriella439 avatar Gabriella439 5 months ago | link

      You’re welcome! 😊

      Also, thanks for the really useful context

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        puffnfresh avatar puffnfresh 5 months ago | link

        I just confirmed that nixpkgs enables the hvf (i.e. Hypervisor.framework) QEMU accelerator on macOS:

        https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/c46bdcbaf299064ca935438b6704a2f99394966c/nixos/lib/qemu-common.nix#L41