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authorvolth <volth@volth.com>2017-12-06 04:33:45 +0000
committerOrivej Desh <orivej@gmx.fr>2017-12-21 03:56:40 +0000
commita52aa6aafb1457548c78c0b759e47fc63f40ed76 (patch)
treef73f352c5fd228e0f1b9b7e6878e67d56a34707c /nixos/modules/virtualisation/libvirtd.nix
parentfd91e1441f1d4e784e66e40c0e31b3cb8b55fcd2 (diff)
nixos/libvirt: avoid dependency on two qemu packages
Currently libvirt requires two qemu derivations: qemu and qemu_kvm which is just a truncated version of qemu (defined as qemu.override { hostCpuOnly = true; }). This patch exposes an option virtualisation.libvirtd.qemuPackage which allows to choose which package to use: * pkgs.qemu_kvm if all your guests have the same CPU as host, or * pkgs.qemu which allows to emulate alien architectures (for example ARMV7L on X86_64), or * a custom derivation virtualisation.libvirtd.enableKVM option is vague and could be deprecate in favor of virtualisation.libvirtd.qemuPackage, anyway it does allow to enable/disable kvm.
Diffstat (limited to 'nixos/modules/virtualisation/libvirtd.nix')
-rw-r--r--nixos/modules/virtualisation/libvirtd.nix19
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/modules/virtualisation/libvirtd.nix b/nixos/modules/virtualisation/libvirtd.nix
index 8aa7ad8e3911..7208b23116a5 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/virtualisation/libvirtd.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/virtualisation/libvirtd.nix
@@ -41,7 +41,16 @@ in {
type = types.bool;
default = true;
description = ''
- This option enables support for QEMU/KVM in libvirtd.
+ This option disables support for non-KVM guests in libvirtd (e.g. aarch64 on x86).
+ KVM is available even if this setting is false.
+ '';
+ };
+
+ virtualisation.libvirtd.qemuPackage = mkOption {
+ type = types.package;
+ default = if cfg.enableKVM then pkgs.qemu_kvm else pkgs.qemu;
+ description = ''
+ Qemu package to use with libvirt
'';
};
@@ -102,7 +111,7 @@ in {
config = mkIf cfg.enable {
- environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ libvirt netcat-openbsd qemu_kvm ];
+ environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ libvirt netcat-openbsd cfg.qemuPackage ];
boot.kernelModules = [ "tun" ];
@@ -154,9 +163,9 @@ in {
# stable (not GC'able as in /nix/store) paths for using in <emulator> section of xml configs
mkdir -p /run/libvirt/nix-emulators
- ln -s --force ${pkgs.libvirt}/libexec/libvirt_lxc /run/libvirt/nix-emulators/
- ${optionalString pkgs.stdenv.isAarch64 "ln -s --force ${pkgs.qemu}/bin/qemu-system-aarch64 /run/libvirt/nix-emulators/"}
- ${optionalString cfg.enableKVM "ln -s --force ${pkgs.qemu_kvm}/bin/qemu-kvm /run/libvirt/nix-emulators/"}
+ for emulator in ${pkgs.libvirt}/libexec/libvirt_lxc ${cfg.qemuPackage}/bin/qemu-kvm ${cfg.qemuPackage}/bin/qemu-system-*; do
+ ln -s --force "$emulator" /run/libvirt/nix-emulators/
+ done
${optionalString cfg.qemuOvmf ''
mkdir -p /run/libvirt/nix-ovmf