Provides isolated development environments using either VMs (microvm.nix)
or containers (systemd-nspawn) with a unified configuration interface.
Features:
- Unified options with required type field ("vm" or "container")
- Shared base configuration for networking, SSH, users, packages
- Automatic SSH host key generation and persistence
- Shell aliases for workspace management (start/stop/status/ssh)
- Automatic /etc/hosts entries for workspace hostnames
- restartIfChanged support for both VMs and containers
- Passwordless doas in workspaces
Container backend:
- Uses hostBridge for proper bridge networking with /24 subnet
- systemd-networkd for IP configuration
- systemd-resolved for DNS
VM backend:
- TAP interface with deterministic MAC addresses
- virtiofs shares for workspace directories
- vsock CID generation
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