Commit 4009f60d authored by Robert Kovacsics's avatar Robert Kovacsics Committed by Bjørn Forsman
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nixos/virtualbox-image: Allow running extra commands after OVA creation 

This is useful as virtual machines can often be large files so not
having duplicates/work files in /nix/store can save a lot of space.
parent 0a55d764

nixos/modules/virtualisation/virtualbox-image.nix

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@@ -107,6 +107,23 @@ in { 
          };

        });

      };

      postExportCommands = mkOption {

        type = types.lines;

        default = "";

        example = ''

          ${pkgs.cot}/bin/cot edit-hardware "$fn" \

            -v vmx-14 \

            --nics 2 \

            --nic-types VMXNET3 \

            --nic-names 'Nic name' \

            --nic-networks 'Nic match' \

            --network-descriptions 'Nic description' \

            --scsi-subtypes VirtualSCSI

        '';

        description = lib.mdDoc ''

          Extra commands to run after exporting the OVA to `$fn`.

        '';

      };

    };

  };
@@ -179,6 +196,7 @@ in { 
          mkdir -p $out

          fn="$out/${cfg.vmFileName}"

          VBoxManage export "$vmName" --output "$fn" --options manifest ${escapeShellArgs cfg.exportParams}

          ${cfg.postExportCommands}



          rm -v $diskImage