From 47da2236caff942aa44b5ba84763c515ce3e085d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Sesser <florian@privatestorage.io>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 16:27:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Make VirtualBox a lighter build
Remove the VirtualBox GUI, see
https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=21.05&show=virtualisation.virtualbox.host.headless&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&query=virtualbox
---
morph/grid/local/README.rst | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/morph/grid/local/README.rst b/morph/grid/local/README.rst
index 73bfbbdd..6da3ddac 100644
--- a/morph/grid/local/README.rst
+++ b/morph/grid/local/README.rst
@@ -5,10 +5,18 @@ Set up and use a network of local development VMs
(The author of this documentation wasted a lot of time trying to get Vagrant to work with KVM/libvirt.
Issues with networking that looked like guest misconfigurations vanished after changing to the better-tested combination of Vagrant and VirtualBox.)
+This requires `NixOS <https://nixos.org/>/`_.
+Nix without the OS will not work.
Use the local development environment
`````````````````````````````````````
+0. Add VirtualBox to your NixOs system configuration at ``/etc/nixos/configuration.nix``::
+
+ virtualisation.virtualbox.host.enable = true;
+ # Use VirtualBox installation without GUI and Qt dependency:
+ virtualisation.virtualbox.host.headless = true;
+
1. Enter the morph local grid directory::
cd morph/grid/local
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