X-Git-Url: http://git.scottworley.com/nixos-qemu-vm-isolation/blobdiff_plain/adf9fef69bd0f6ef54360b204d6c2ec89bd5bb9c..68bdafb07183ce95311038842731769028f55712:/README.md?ds=inline diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c0aea31..6a6fb43 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ Isolate NixOS QEMU VMs from each other and from the host by using a -squashfs for the VM's /nix/store that contains only the VM's dependencies +private /nix/store image that contains only the VM's dependencies (like the installer has) rather than a virtio mount of the host's entire /nix/store. -**Update:** `virtualisation.useNixStoreImage` exists now! But it doesn't -work! :( See the note in `checks/mount-grep.nix` +**Update:** `virtualisation.useNixStoreImage` exists now! But it builds +the store image at runtime, rather that at build-time, drastically +increasing VM start-up time.