This repository generates Vagrant boxes compatible with the nix installer, as functional install tests require a Vagrant box per distro.

The macos-latest GitHub runners already have vagrant and virtualbox pre-installed, shoutout to jonashackt for documenting this. However, the ubuntu-latest do not natively include these packages, but we are interested in generating libvirt boxes. This requires a fair amount of setup in the CI job.

A fresh Alpine installation does not have a few common system utilities installed that are required for the nix installer: xz, tar, sudo, and shadow (for usermod)

In the future, we should be able to build newer Alpine releases. Some ideas:

• https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/integrations/hashicorp/vagrant/latest/components/post-processor/vagrant
• https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/guides/packer-on-cicd/pipelineing-builds#starting-from-an-iso