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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."
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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...