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The #nix #microvm project added #darwin support!

https://github.com/microvm-nix/microvm.nix/issues/154#event-21442108737

aarch64-darwin support? · Issue #154 · microvm-nix/microvm.nix

We would like to use microvm to provide staging and build environments for developers, but a few of them use apple hardware/software. I can't find a way to use this project to run aarch64-linux vm ...

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Sandro

Mar 6, 2025

#Nix references (or dependencies to other store paths) can be a bit surprising if you don't have the right tools. I find nix-tree very easy to use but nix query-roots or so probably also just works fine. Then my all time favorite ripgrep and you find your surprising reference in no time.

Yesterday I found out that the erofs nix store disk in #microvmnix by @astro kept all references to its content needlessly and today I did a PR to fix that https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix/pull/342

Allow to discard all toplevel references when using erofs by SuperSandro2000 · Pull Request #342 · astro/microvm.nix

Closes #228 I kinda went and removed dead code on every file I opened while debugging.

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