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Host - MacOS

Applications are downloaded and installed manually.

• ghostty
• hammerspoon
• maccy
• utm

Run ./host/install.sh script to create symlinks for configuration files.

Once in a while, run ./host/cleanup.sh script to clean up some storage.

Virtual Machine - NixOS

Skip step 1-3 if you already have a NixOS VM UTM template, which can be downloaded from here

1. Use UTM to create a new VM with the following settings:

   • Custom: Virtualize
   • Preconfigured: Linux
   • Boot ISO Image: download minimal ISO image from NixOS
   • Memory: 10240 (on 16GB host)
   • CPU: 8 (on 10-core host)
   • Disk: 100GB
   • Name: NixOS
   • Network: Emulated VLAN with Port Forwarding on port 22

2. Start the VM and set root password as root

$ sudo -i
$ passwd

3. From this repo, run command to install NixOS

$ make install

Once finish installing, shutdown the VM, remove bootable ISO, then start the VM again.

4. Check out the Makefile and ./vm/bootstrap.nix and make necessary changes to your custom details, then run command

$ make bootstrap

And it's good to go!