nixos/vms: Add disk support

nixos/boxes/colony.nix

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     nixpkgs = "mine";
     home-manager = "unstable";
 
-    configuration = { lib, pkgs, modulesPath, config, ... }:
+    configuration = { lib, pkgs, modulesPath, config, systems, ... }:
       let
         inherit (lib) mkIf;
       in
@@ -40,7 +40,20 @@
           vms = {
             instances.test = {
               networks.virtual = {};
-              vga = "none";
+              drives = {
+                disk = {
+                  backend = {
+                    driver = "file";
+                    filename = "${systems.installer.configuration.config.my.buildAs.iso}/iso/nixos.iso";
+                    read-only = "on";
+                  };
+                  format.driver = "raw";
+                  frontend = "ide-cd";
+                  frontendOpts = {
+                    bootindex = 0;
+                  };
+                };
+              };
             };
           };
         };

nixos/installer.nix

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   nixos.systems.installer = {
     system = "x86_64-linux";
-    nixpkgs = "unstable";
+    nixpkgs = "mine";
     docCustom = false;
 
     configuration =
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
         config = {
           my = {
-            # Whatever installer mechanism is chosen will provied an appropriate `/`
+            # Whatever installer mechanism is chosen will provide an appropriate `/`
             tmproot.enable = false;
             firewall.nat.enable = false;
             deploy.enable = false;

nixos/modules/vms.nix

@@ -22,6 +22,18 @@ let
     };
   };
 
+  driveOpts = with lib.types; {
+    options = {
+      backend = mkOpt' qemuOpts { } "Backend blockdev options.";
+
+      format = mkOpt' qemuOpts { } "Format blockdev options.";
+      formatBackendProp = mkOpt' str "file" "Property that references the backend blockdev.";
+
+      frontend = mkOpt' str "virtio-blk" "Frontend device driver.";
+      frontendOpts = mkOpt' qemuOpts { } "Frontend device options.";
+    };
+  };
+
   vmOpts = with lib.types; { name, ... }: {
     options = {
       qemuBin = mkOpt' path "${pkgs.qemu_kvm}/bin/qemu-kvm" "Path to QEMU executable.";
@@ -40,6 +52,7 @@ let
       vga = mkOpt' str "qxl" "VGA card type.";
       spice.enable = mkBoolOpt' true "Whether to enable SPICE.";
       networks = mkOpt' (attrsOf (submodule netOpts)) { } "Networks to attach VM to.";
+      drives = mkOpt' (attrsOf (submodule driveOpts)) { } "Drives to attach to VM.";
     };
   };
 
@@ -61,15 +74,20 @@ let
         "device isa-serial,chardev=tty"
       ] ++
       (optional i.enableKVM "enable-kvm") ++
+      (optionals i.enableUEFI [
+        "drive if=pflash,format=raw,unit=0,readonly=on,file=${cfg.ovmfPackage.fd}/FV/OVMF_CODE.fd"
+        "drive if=pflash,format=raw,unit=1,file=/var/lib/vms/${n}/ovmf_vars.bin"
+      ]) ++
       (optional i.spice.enable "spice unix=on,addr=/run/vms/${n}/spice.sock,disable-ticketing=on") ++
       (flatten (mapAttrsToList (nn: c: [
         "netdev bridge,id=${nn},br=${c.bridge}"
         ("device ${c.model},netdev=${nn}" + (extraQEMUOpts c.extraOptions))
       ]) i.networks)) ++
-      (optionals i.enableUEFI [
+      (flatten (mapAttrsToList (dn: c: [
-        "drive if=pflash,format=raw,unit=0,readonly=on,file=${cfg.ovmfPackage.fd}/FV/OVMF_CODE.fd"
+        "blockdev node-name=${dn}-backend,${c.backend}"
-        "drive if=pflash,format=raw,unit=1,file=/var/lib/vms/${n}/ovmf_vars.bin"
+        "blockdev node-name=${dn}-format,${c.formatBackendProp}=${dn}-backend,${c.format}"
-      ]);
+        ("device ${c.frontend},id=${dn},drive=${dn}-format" + (extraQEMUOpts c.frontendOpts))
+      ]) i.drives));
     args = map (v: "-${v}") flags;
   in
     concatStringsSep " " ([ i.qemuBin ] ++ args);