Host

virtualisation.host.pkgs

Package set to use for the host-specific packages of the VM runner. Changing this to e.g. a Darwin package set allows running NixOS VMs on Darwin.

Type: An evaluation of Nixpkgs; the top level attribute set of packages

Default

pkgs

Example

import pkgs.path { system = "x86_64-darwin"; }

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/virtualisation/qemu-vm.nix