Nixpkgs: wiki: Installing VirtualBox on NixOS

[garbas]

https://nixos.org/wiki/Installing_VirtualBox_on_NixOS

[P-E-Meunier]

On the stable channel, I just did the following to get VBoxManage to work. It was not on the wiki, nor on any github issue:

environment.systemPackages = [ virtualboxHardened ];
services.virtualbox.host = { enable = true; enableHardening = false; };
security.setuidPrograms = [ "VirtualBox" "VBoxManage" ];

The setuidPrograms line is meant to allow non-root users to start virtualbox, and is set at install on recent channels (although VBoxManage doesn't seem to be in that package for some reason. This should be tested against a recent unstable).

I guess another way would be to install virtualBox, and set enableHardening = false, but this is really documented nowhere.

Another undocumented thing is that one needs both services.virtualbox.host.… set, and a package installed: the current wiki page makes it look like the services.virtualbox option is enough, but it wasn't in my case.

[p-alik]

meanwhile https://nixos.org/wiki/Installing_VirtualBox_on_NixOS disappeared

The community-maintained NixOS wiki now can be found at https://nixos.wiki

I couldn't find "Installing VirtualBox on NixOS" instruction on https://nixos.wiki

But on github https://github.com/deepfire/nixos-wiki/blob/master/Installing%20VirtualBox%20on%20NixOS.page

[p-alik]

setuidPrograms is obsolete
trace: warning: The option definitionsecurity.setuidPrograms' in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix' no longer has any effect

[flokli]

Shouldn't it be simply

virtualisation.virtualbox.host.enable = true;
users.extraUsers.myuser.extraGroups = ["vboxusers"];

as described in the options?

[p-alik]

works fine on

18.03.132750.91b286c8935