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I asked how it worked. i didn't even know you could do this. this is badass

"The clever bit: It mounts your host's /nix/store directly into the VM via virtfs. The VM doesn't need its own copy of all those Nix packages - it just uses yours. That's why it boots fast and the disk image stays small."

jb55 @jb55 · 17w

i just got claude-code to create a nix build of a qemu virtual machine to run moltbot in. worked great. now its virtualized and I can move it from my laptop to somewhere else when i find a home for it

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jb55 · 17w

this thing is a bigger nerd than me, jfc: QEMU has a protocol called 9P (from Plan 9) that lets the guest mount a host directory as a filesystem. The virtio transport makes it fast - no network overhead, just shared memory. ...

hasky · 17w

Sounds you enjoyed it

Erik · 16w

I've been doing similar (ish) with proxmox and LXCs I have an opus molt bolt that has access to a pve node to spin up containers. Then I have it provision LXCs woth molt bolt (generally cheaper models that I trust less) It's like a Russian nesting doll for molt bots. If the lesser model gets stuc...