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Puts 4G swap in /var/swap of OVA. This serves as backup when you hit
the memory cap for the image.

I need to test this some more to make sure there are no regressions.

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@GrahamcOfBorg GrahamcOfBorg added 6.topic: nixos Issues or PRs affecting NixOS modules, or package usability issues specific to NixOS 8.has: module (update) This PR changes an existing module in `nixos/` 10.rebuild-darwin: 0 This PR does not cause any packages to rebuild on Darwin 10.rebuild-linux: 0 This PR does not cause any packages to rebuild on Linux labels Mar 13, 2019
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though I think 2Gb should be enough. Any reasoning on why 4G?

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xeji commented Mar 15, 2019

though I think 2Gb should be enough.

I agree, and believe it's generally better to give VMs only a small amount of local swap space.
If they use more than that you can assign them more memory, that's what ballooning and overcommiting are for...

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nixos/virtualbox: add swap file
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Puts 2G swap in /var/swap of OVA. This serves as backup when you hit
the memory cap for the image.

Fixes NixOS#57171 and fixes NixOS#22696
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nixos/virtualbox: Fixes configuration to evaluate
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Fixes issue introduced by NixOS#57557
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❌ The option 'swap' [...] does not exist.

~/tmp/nixpkgs/nixpkgs 1 $ nix-instantiate --show-trace nixos/release-combined.nix -A nixos.ova.x86_64-linux
error: while evaluating anonymous function at /Users/samuel/tmp/nixpkgs/nixpkgs/nixos/release-combined.nix:20:34, called from undefined position:
while evaluating 'removeMaintainers' at /Users/samuel/tmp/nixpkgs/nixpkgs/nixos/release-combined.nix:17:23, called from /Users/samuel/tmp/nixpkgs/nixpkgs/nixos/release-combined.nix:20:37:
while evaluating anonymous function at /Users/samuel/tmp/nixpkgs/nixpkgs/nixos/release.nix:184:48, called from /Users/samuel/tmp/nixpkgs/nixpkgs/lib/attrsets.nix:292:43:
while evaluating 'hydraJob' at /Users/samuel/tmp/nixpkgs/nixpkgs/lib/customisation.nix:157:14, called from /Users/samuel/tmp/nixpkgs/nixpkgs/nixos/release.nix:188:5:
while evaluating the attribute 'config.system.build.virtualBoxOVA' at /Users/samuel/tmp/nixpkgs/nixpkgs/nixos/lib/eval-config.nix:58:5:
while evaluating the attribute 'config' at /Users/samuel/tmp/nixpkgs/nixpkgs/lib/modules.nix:87:25:
while evaluating 'yieldConfig' at /Users/samuel/tmp/nixpkgs/nixpkgs/lib/modules.nix:74:29, called from /Users/samuel/tmp/nixpkgs/nixpkgs/lib/modules.nix:73:16:
while evaluating anonymous function at /Users/samuel/tmp/nixpkgs/nixpkgs/lib/modules.nix:80:24, called from /Users/samuel/tmp/nixpkgs/nixpkgs/lib/modules.nix:80:11:
while evaluating anonymous function at /Users/samuel/tmp/nixpkgs/nixpkgs/lib/modules.nix:81:26, called from /Users/samuel/tmp/nixpkgs/nixpkgs/lib/modules.nix:81:13:
The option `swap' defined in `/Users/samuel/tmp/nixpkgs/nixpkgs/nixos/modules/virtualisation/virtualbox-image.nix' does not exist.
Command exited with non-zero status 1

Hopefully once NixOS/ofborg#342 is merged this will be made more evident, since it also made the tested job of nixos:trunk-combined disappear.

See #59945

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Fixes issue introduced by NixOS#57557
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