createEmptyImage

pkgs.vmTools.createEmptyImage

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A bash script fragment that produces a disk image at destination.

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Implementation

The following is the current implementation of this function.

createEmptyImage = {
    # Disk image size in MiB
    size,
    # Name that will be written to ${destination}/nix-support/full-name
    fullName,
    # Where to write the image files, defaulting to $out
    destination ? "$out"
  }: ''
    mkdir -p ${destination}
    diskImage=${destination}/disk-image.qcow2
    ${qemu}/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow2 $diskImage "${toString size}M"

    mkdir ${destination}/nix-support
    echo "${fullName}" > ${destination}/nix-support/full-name
  '';