lassulus

well making squashfs optional is also something which needs to be done upstream. so not much I can do in nixos-generators I guess (but didn't really take a deep look)

sounds good, I'm currently fighting against my matrix setup, so as soon as I have that figured out I can join the channel :D

here is a recent addition of mine: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/131312 maybe we should think about a common interface we want to export in every module. currently some modules don't even have any...

I'm currently working on improving the make-disk-image in nixpkgs (which nixos-generators is using). https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/89331 IMHO these modules you describe should reside in nixpkgs. And it would be nice to have...

hmm, not sure if bios is at fault here, 'Booting the kernel' sounds like it found a kernel and failed later in the boot process?

on what machine do you try to boot the image?

uhm, what kind of virtualization it is using? do you have a qemu command ready to test it for me? is it on x86_64? etc

have you tried the openstack format instead of the cloudstack one?

ah, alright, well nixos-generators is just a thin wrapper around nixpkgs. so the problems are probably upstream. as you can see in https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators/blob/master/formats/openstack.nix we just import this file: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/maintainers/scripts/openstack/openstack-image.nix and...

it seems like this script uses ec2-bundle-image which needs a connection to amazon and an actual working account. So this seems not to be possible from inside a builder. I...