nixos-container: support restarts

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/tools/virtualization/nixos-container/nixos-container.pl b/pkgs/tools/virtualization/nixos-container/nixos-container.pl
index 2cb723a7b71..a210a65f431 100755
--- a/pkgs/tools/virtualization/nixos-container/nixos-container.pl
+++ b/pkgs/tools/virtualization/nixos-container/nixos-container.pl
@@ -242,11 +242,21 @@ sub terminateContainer {
     while ( kill 0, $leader ) { Time::HiRes::sleep(0.1) }
 }
 
+sub startContainer {
+    system("systemctl", "start", "container\@$containerName") == 0
+        or die "$0: failed to start container\n";
+}
+
 sub stopContainer {
     system("systemctl", "stop", "container\@$containerName") == 0
         or die "$0: failed to stop container\n";
 }
 
+sub restartContainer {
+    stopContainer;
+    startContainer;
+}
+
 # Run a command in the container.
 sub runInContainer {
     my @args = @_;
@@ -285,9 +295,12 @@ if ($action eq "destroy") {
     unlink($confFile) or die;
 }
 
+elsif ($action eq "restart") {
+    restartContainer;
+}
+
 elsif ($action eq "start") {
-    system("systemctl", "start", "container\@$containerName") == 0
-        or die "$0: failed to start container\n";
+    startContainer;
 }
 
 elsif ($action eq "stop") {