[BUG] Selecting "VM" during install assumes /dev/vdX device. Should read hardware.nix

[dwilliam62]

I am using proxmox which provides /dev/sdX devices for the VMs

Selecting VM during the install causes grub to fail to find the device. "Bad ioctl for device"

Since it's looking for /dev/vda

[dwilliam62]

I selected desktop and I still got Grub error but it booted Now on an update/rebuild I get it again

[dwilliam62]

Nevermind. When I first set it up as VM that's the host entry it's still using. Let me try to update the config for hosts/'VM

[Frost-Phoenix]

Hi, the vm host was addend by @sleeyax in #15 and tbh I don't think I ever tried to install it, maybe he knows more about this (I don't know much about VMs).
Also I didn't do an install from zero in quite some time know, I think I will try to install the VM host tomorrow or in tow days to see if I could help.

[sleeyax]

I added the VM option at the very beginning for testing. Then I never touched it again. So not sure if I can be of help either, it's been so long ago. Maybe we can check the NX docs to see if anything needs to be changed to make it work again.

[dwilliam62]

Cool. I will also look at the code more closely this week. It is working now that I made the change. Ideally the VM option would also enable VM guest services as well.

  ##QEMU Guest services
  vm.guest-services.enable = true;

But otherwise they behave the same as physical hosts

[dwilliam62]

I work on a similar project for NixOS (and other distros) for Hyprland. I really like what you have done though.
https://github.com/JaKooLit/NixOS-Hyprland

[Frost-Phoenix]

Cool. I will also look at the code more closely this week. It is working now that I made the change. Ideally the VM option would also enable VM guest services as well.

  ##QEMU Guest services
  vm.guest-services.enable = true;

What did you change exactly ? Also I can't find the vm.guest-services.enable option, where did you enable it ?

[dwilliam62]

Cool. I will also look at the code more closely this week. It is working now that I made the change. Ideally the VM option would also enable VM guest services as well.

  ##QEMU Guest services
  vm.guest-services.enable = true;

What did you change exactly ? Also I can't find the vm.guest-services.enable option, where did you enable it ?

This is from my setup I have not added it in to your config yet

{
 lib,
 pkgs,
 config,
 ...
}:
with lib;
let
 cfg = config.vm.guest-services;
in
{
 options.vm.guest-services = {
   enable = mkEnableOption "Enable Virtual Machine Guest Services";
 };

 config = mkIf cfg.enable {
   services.qemuGuest.enable = true;
   services.spice-vdagentd.enable = true;
   services.spice-webdavd.enable = true;
 };
}```