nixos/tips/test_on_vm.md

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## Configure VM
Configure VM
```nix
users.users.<user>.initialPassword = "<password>";
virtualisation.vmVariant = {
# following configuration is added only when building VM with build-vm
virtualisation = {
memorySize = <RAM in MiB>; # Use 8192MiB memory.
cores = <CPU Core number>;
# And more here https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-unstable/nixos/modules/virtualisation/qemu-vm.nix
};
};
```
Build
```bash
nixos-rebuild build-vm --flake .#nixos-test
```
Run
```bash
./result/bin/run-nixos-vm-vm
```