NixOS + NixBSD Dual Boot
A reproducible dual-boot system combining NixOS and NixBSD on a single ZFS pool, with GRUB chainloading the FreeBSD bootloader.
What's Inside
- NixOS for the Linux environment and GRUB bootloader
- NixBSD (FreeBSD 15) cross-compiled from Linux
- Single flake managing both systems
Quick Start
Download the latest disk image from Releases and boot with:
# Using libvirt/virt-manager: # - Firmware: UEFI # - Disk bus: SATA # - Attach the .img file as a disk # Or with QEMU directly: qemu-system-x86_64 \ -enable-kvm \ -m 2048 \ -bios /usr/share/ovmf/OVMF.fd \ -drive file=nixos.root.img,format=raw
Default credentials: nixos / nixos (or root / toor)
Building Locally
nix build .#zfsImage # Result: ./result/nixos.root.img
Dependencies are cached at jonhermansen.cachix.org.
Related Projects
This is experimental software. NixBSD can only be cross-compiled from Linux at this time.