| 11 Oct 2024 |
 shard | And from what I saw, VcXsrv is faster too | 17:26:03 |
| 12 Oct 2024 |
 98765abc | did u disable networking.firewall.enable? | 03:20:01 |
| 13 Oct 2024 |
|  philthompson joined the room. | 11:51:19 |
| philthompson | Hey people, been using NixOS for about a year now. However, no matter how hard I try I can't leave Windows (yet). I don't use Home Manager or Flakes. I read somewhere that support for using a channel for NixOS-WSL has been implemented but I can't find the URL. So my question is, can I add the (if it exists) NixOS-WSL channel to my existing NixOS configuration and be able to build a tar.gz that I can chuck into WSL?
Granted I'll need a custom build tailored for WSL but it'd be great to get some of the config I've spent a year tweaking into Windows.
Also, would the NixOS-WSL build that targets NixPkgs 24.05 work with my NixOS configuration that currently targets unstable or do I need to match the version? | 12:04:15 |
 K900 | Just grab the existing tarball | 12:10:52 |
| K900 | It has a channel setup | 12:10:55 |
| K900 | It does work on unstable | 12:11:02 |
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| philthompson | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
It does work on unstable Thanks. I guess I need to learn a bit more about channels. | 14:06:08 |
| K900 | You shouldn't need to? | 14:06:37 |
| K900 | Just use the default tarball from CI | 14:06:44 |
| K900 | And then copy your config in | 14:06:48 |
| philthompson | Ah okay. Didn't realise it was that simple. The Flu is affecting my brain. Cheers. | 14:07:26 |
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| 17 Oct 2024 |
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| 19 Oct 2024 |
 mwoodpatrickmx | I'm running NixOS on WSL and experimenting running VM's under my NixOS. I have virt-manager installed and am able to create some basic VM's running. I would appreciate any pointers to docs or info on best practices when running virt-manager & libvirtd on NixOS under WSL-2. Especially any issues related to doing this under WSL-2. | 13:14:28 |
| K900 | Don't, generally | 13:17:56 |
| K900 | Nested virt is pretty slow even on a good day | 13:18:03 |
| K900 | And you have Hyper-V right there | 13:18:07 |
| mwoodpatrickmx |
And you have Hyper-V right there
Can you elaborate
| 13:21:51 |
 nzbr (they/it) | From my experience: It does work (used it to run https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM) but it frequently crashed Hyper-V for me. At least that's what I assume happened - The screen just went black and it rebooted, not even a BSOD
That was on an insider build through, so it might be less crash-prone now | 13:21:59 |
| K900 | In reply to@mwoodpatrickmx:matrix.org
And you have Hyper-V right there
Can you elaborate
Like, WSL is just a Hyper-V VM | 13:23:21 |
| K900 | You can enable Hyper-V proper | 13:23:25 |
| nzbr (they/it) | Hyper-V itself isn't that great of a experience if you want to do anything with a GUI IMHO. But VMware workstation is free for personal use now and works pretty great even with Hyper-V enabled if you don't mind using a proprietary solution | 13:23:25 |
| K900 | And run WSL and "big" Hyper-V VMs | 13:23:32 |
| mwoodpatrickmx | I would prefer to use an Open source solution | 13:25:17 |
| K900 | You're on Windows | 13:26:04 |
| mwoodpatrickmx | I'm running on my Windows 11 laptop (64GB) | 13:26:15 |
| K900 | Your "open source solution" is just Hyper-V through an abstraction layer | 13:26:19 |
| K900 | So skip the abstraction layer and just run Hyper-V | 13:26:28 |
