Simple VMware friendly NixOS Linux installer
- Download NixOS Minimal 64-bit ISO from https://nixos.org/download.html
- Create a new VMware virtual machine (recommended 8 GB mem, 100 GB disk, "Virtualize Intel VT-x/EPT or AMD-V/RVI") with the ISO and start the VMware machine
$ curl -L https://github.com/Avarko/nixos-devkit-installer/archive/main.zip -o install.zip
$ unzip install.zip
$ cd nixos-devkit-installer-main
- Set the passwords for root and 'devkit' users and store them in your own password safe (
$ nano env-params
) $ ./install.sh
- Read the log if you wish (
less install.log
) - If all seems fine, restart the machine:
reboot