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+{ config, pkgs, ... }:
+
+with pkgs.lib;
+
+{
+  imports = [ ../profiles/headless.nix ./ec2-data.nix ];
+
+  system.build.amazonImage =
+    pkgs.vmTools.runInLinuxVM (
+      pkgs.runCommand "amazon-image"
+        { preVM =
+            ''
+              mkdir $out
+              diskImage=$out/nixos.img
+              ${pkgs.vmTools.qemu}/bin/qemu-img create -f raw $diskImage "4G"
+              mv closure xchg/
+            '';
+          buildInputs = [ pkgs.utillinux pkgs.perl ];
+          exportReferencesGraph =
+            [ "closure" config.system.build.toplevel ];
+        }
+        ''
+          # Create an empty filesystem and mount it.
+          ${pkgs.e2fsprogs}/sbin/mkfs.ext4 -L nixos /dev/vda
+          ${pkgs.e2fsprogs}/sbin/tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/vda
+          mkdir /mnt
+          mount /dev/vda /mnt
+
+          # The initrd expects these directories to exist.
+          mkdir /mnt/dev /mnt/proc /mnt/sys
+
+          mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc
+
+          # Copy all paths in the closure to the filesystem.
+          storePaths=$(perl ${pkgs.pathsFromGraph} /tmp/xchg/closure)
+
+          mkdir -p /mnt/nix/store
+          echo "copying everything (will take a while)..."
+          cp -prd $storePaths /mnt/nix/store/
+
+          # Register the paths in the Nix database.
+          printRegistration=1 perl ${pkgs.pathsFromGraph} /tmp/xchg/closure | \
+              chroot /mnt ${config.environment.nix}/bin/nix-store --load-db
+
+          # Create the system profile to allow nixos-rebuild to work.
+          chroot /mnt ${config.environment.nix}/bin/nix-env \
+              -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/system --set ${config.system.build.toplevel}
+
+          # `nixos-rebuild' requires an /etc/NIXOS.
+          mkdir -p /mnt/etc
+          touch /mnt/etc/NIXOS
+
+          # `switch-to-configuration' requires a /bin/sh
+          mkdir -p /mnt/bin
+          ln -s ${config.system.build.binsh}/bin/sh /mnt/bin/sh
+
+          # Install a configuration.nix.
+          mkdir -p /mnt/etc/nixos
+          cp ${./amazon-config.nix} /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix
+
+          # Generate the GRUB menu.
+          chroot /mnt ${config.system.build.toplevel}/bin/switch-to-configuration boot
+
+          umount /mnt/proc
+          umount /mnt
+        ''
+    );
+
+  fileSystems."/".device = "/dev/disk/by-label/nixos";
+
+  boot.initrd.kernelModules = [ "xen-blkfront" ];
+  boot.kernelModules = [ "xen-netfront" ];
+
+  # Generate a GRUB menu.  Amazon's pv-grub uses this to boot our kernel/initrd.
+  boot.loader.grub.version = 1;
+  boot.loader.grub.device = "nodev";
+  boot.loader.grub.timeout = 0;
+  boot.loader.grub.extraPerEntryConfig = "root (hd0)";
+
+  boot.initrd.postDeviceCommands =
+    ''
+      # Force udev to exit to prevent random "Device or resource busy
+      # while trying to open /dev/xvda" errors from fsck.
+      udevadm control --exit || true
+      kill -9 -1
+    '';
+
+  # Mount all formatted ephemeral disks and activate all swap devices.
+  # We cannot do this with the ‘fileSystems’ and ‘swapDevices’ options
+  # because the set of devices is dependent on the instance type
+  # (e.g. "m1.large" has one ephemeral filesystem and one swap device,
+  # while "m1.large" has two ephemeral filesystems and no swap
+  # devices).  Also, put /tmp and /var on /disk0, since it has a lot
+  # more space than the root device.  Similarly, "move" /nix to /disk0
+  # by layering a unionfs-fuse mount on top of it so we have a lot more space for
+  # Nix operations.
+  boot.initrd.postMountCommands =
+    ''
+      diskNr=0
+      diskForUnionfs=
+      for device in /dev/xvd[abcde]*; do
+          if [ "$device" = /dev/xvda -o "$device" = /dev/xvda1 ]; then continue; fi
+          fsType=$(blkid -o value -s TYPE "$device" || true)
+          if [ "$fsType" = swap ]; then
+              echo "activating swap device $device..."
+              swapon "$device" || true
+          elif [ "$fsType" = ext3 ]; then
+              mp="/disk$diskNr"
+              diskNr=$((diskNr + 1))
+              echo "mounting $device on $mp..."
+              if mountFS "$device" "$mp" "" ext3; then
+                  if [ -z "$diskForUnionfs" ]; then diskForUnionfs="$mp"; fi
+              fi
+          else
+              echo "skipping unknown device type $device"
+          fi
+      done
+
+      if [ -n "$diskForUnionfs" ]; then
+          mkdir -m 755 -p $targetRoot/$diskForUnionfs/root
+
+          mkdir -m 1777 -p $targetRoot/$diskForUnionfs/root/tmp $targetRoot/tmp
+          mount --bind $targetRoot/$diskForUnionfs/root/tmp $targetRoot/tmp
+
+          if [ ! -e $targetRoot/.ebs ]; then
+              mkdir -m 755 -p $targetRoot/$diskForUnionfs/root/var $targetRoot/var
+              mount --bind $targetRoot/$diskForUnionfs/root/var $targetRoot/var
+
+              mkdir -p /unionfs-chroot/ro-nix
+              mount --rbind $targetRoot/nix /unionfs-chroot/ro-nix
+
+              mkdir -m 755 -p $targetRoot/$diskForUnionfs/root/nix
+              mkdir -p /unionfs-chroot/rw-nix
+              mount --rbind $targetRoot/$diskForUnionfs/root/nix /unionfs-chroot/rw-nix
+
+              unionfs -o allow_other,cow,nonempty,chroot=/unionfs-chroot,max_files=32768 /rw-nix=RW:/ro-nix=RO $targetRoot/nix
+          fi
+      fi
+    '';
+
+  boot.initrd.extraUtilsCommands =
+    ''
+      # We need swapon in the initrd.
+      cp ${pkgs.utillinux}/sbin/swapon $out/bin
+    '';
+
+  # Don't put old configurations in the GRUB menu.  The user has no
+  # way to select them anyway.
+  boot.loader.grub.configurationLimit = 0;
+
+  # Allow root logins only using the SSH key that the user specified
+  # at instance creation time.
+  services.openssh.enable = true;
+  services.openssh.permitRootLogin = "without-password";
+
+  # Force getting the hostname from EC2.
+  networking.hostName = mkDefault "";
+
+  # Always include cryptsetup so that Charon can use it.
+  environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.cryptsetup ];
+
+  boot.initrd.supportedFilesystems = [ "unionfs-fuse" ];
+}