Using nspawn-nixos on Unifi devices #7
Description
Hi there!
I'm trying to use your repository to start it on a UDM Pro. I tried several things without success, so I'm just posting here whatever I found. I would love to be able to manage a small NixOS VM within the UDM for vital network applications (such as network.xyz, Adguard, cloudflared, traefik, ...)
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Importing tar
There is an error while importing the tar file with a lot of lines similar to the following:
tar: nix/store/wlxpsdzfvdanfzh704qmgyzb42qvy4fr-python3-3.10.12/include/python3.10: Directory renamed before its status could be extracted
tar: nix/store/wlxpsdzfvdanfzh704qmgyzb42qvy4fr-python3-3.10.12/include: Directory renamed before its status could be extracted
tar: nix/store/vzgyz71zc2f7l5ydk5kx8b1rkjv14yyj-tzdata-2023c/share/zoneinfo/posix: Directory renamed before its status could be extracted
tar: nix/store/vzgyz71zc2f7l5ydk5kx8b1rkjv14yyj-tzdata-2023c/share/zoneinfo: Directory renamed before its status could be extracted
tar: nix/store/vzgyz71zc2f7l5ydk5kx8b1rkjv14yyj-tzdata-2023c/share: Directory renamed before its status could be extracted
tar: nix/store/vzgyz71zc2f7l5ydk5kx8b1rkjv14yyj-tzdata-2023c: Directory renamed before its status could be extracted
tar: nix/store/vhj0sjllqakkw4vvzs96xsf3j2f2f3zw-coreutils-full-9.3/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_TIME: Directory renamed before its status could be extracted
tar: nix/store/vhj0sjllqakkw4vvzs96xsf3j2f2f3zw-coreutils-full-9.3/share/locale/zh_TW: Directory renamed before its status could be extracted
tar: nix/store/vhj0sjllqakkw4vvzs96xsf3j2f2f3zw-coreutils-full-9.3/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_TIME: Directory renamed before its status could be extracted
tar: nix/store/vhj0sjllqakkw4vvzs96xsf3j2f2f3zw-coreutils-full-9.3/share/locale/zh_CN: Directory renamed before its status could be extracted
...
I have no idea why it does this. I tried to loop online without success either.
Extracting by hand
I used tar -xf nixos.tar.xz to extract the folder, and then I directly used systemd-nspawn to start it. I get the following error:
root@Dream-Machine-Special-Edition:/data/custom/machines# systemd-nspawn -M nixos -D ./nixos
Spawning container nixos on /data/custom/machines/nixos.
Press ^] three times within 1s to kill container.
execv(/usr/lib/systemd/systemd, /lib/systemd/systemd, /sbin/init) failed: Exec format error
Container nixos failed with error code 1.