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| -rw-r--r-- | nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing-virtualbox-guest.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing-virtualbox-guest.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing-virtualbox-guest.xml index da78b480f5a..766785dfe07 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing-virtualbox-guest.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing-virtualbox-guest.xml @@ -77,18 +77,22 @@ Shared folders can be given a name and a path in the host system in the VirtualBox settings (Machine / Settings / Shared Folders, then click on the "Add" icon). Add the following to the - <literal>/etc/nixos/configuration.nix</literal> to auto-mount them: + <literal>/etc/nixos/configuration.nix</literal> to auto-mount them. If you + do not add <literal>"nofail"</literal>, the system will no boot properly. + The same goes for disabling <literal>rngd</literal> which is normally used + to get randomness but this does not work in virtual machines. </para> <programlisting> { config, pkgs, ...} : { + security.rngd.enable = false; // otherwise vm will not boot ... fileSystems."/virtualboxshare" = { fsType = "vboxsf"; device = "nameofthesharedfolder"; - options = [ "rw" ]; + options = [ "rw" "nofail" ]; }; } </programlisting> |