Closed RobWalt closed 7 months ago
Cool, I didn't know how to add static leases to networkd's DHCP server before.
On the other hand, it duplicates a lot of configuration from the other examples. I think it would be a good fit to merge it with examples/microvms-host.nix
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Thanks for the feedback and I agree, merging the examples makes sense. I'll see what I can do!
The feature is included in the existing example now, giving a static IP to the nested QEMU VM. It should always get the ip 10.0.13.37 now
Thank you!
Disclaimer: I started looking into microvm.nix on last friday. I had no experience whatsoever with systemd-network before so please apologize:
I was mainly looking for ways to virtualize services hosted on my servers without too much of a hassle. microvm.nix seemed fitting my use case and getting the first VM to run was amazingly easy. After that I felt a bit lost as a total networking novice and I came up with the approach in this PR which is basically just a remix of the
microvms-host.nix
example. My goal was to have the guest systems on predictable addresses so that I can use the hosts nginx to proxy them in the same way I'm used to doing it on my server.I was also looking into configuring the private network completely statically, but I didn't get that to work. There's also this advanced networking page in the handbook which seemed like it could've helped to solve my problem, but again I didn't get something to work as those fragments of code were to little for my level of networking knowledge.
I just feel like there should exist an boilerplatey example for unskilled people that does something like this so I figured I might as well contribute this akward solution I found. Feel free to ignore this PR and close it if it's an stupid idea.
Anyways: Thanks for creating the flake! I had a lot of fun playing around with it and learning more about nix and VMs! :)