WIP: lxc

formats/lxc-metadata.nix

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+{ config, pkgs, modulesPath, ... }:
+{
+  system.build.metadata = pkgs.callPackage <nixpkgs/nixos/lib/make-system-tarball.nix> {
+    contents = [{
+      source = pkgs.writeText "metadata.yaml" ''
+        architecture: x86_64
+        creation_date: 1424284563
+        properties:
+          description: NixOS
+          os: nixos
+          release: test
+      '';
+      target = "/metadata.yaml";
+    }];
+  };
+  formatAttr = "metadata";
+}
+

formats/lxc.nix

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+{ config, pkgs, lib, modulesPath, ... }: let
+  pkgs2storeContents = l : map (x: { object = x; symlink = "none"; }) l;
+in {
+  imports = [
+    "${toString modulesPath}/virtualisation/lxc-container.nix"
+  ];
+
+  system.build.tarball = lib.mkForce (pkgs.callPackage <nixpkgs/nixos/lib/make-system-tarball.nix> {
+    contents = [];
+    extraArgs = "--owner=0";
+    storeContents = [
+      {
+        object = config.system.build.toplevel + "/init";
+        symlink = "/sbin/init";
+      }
+    ] ++ (pkgs2storeContents [ pkgs.stdenv ]);
+
+    extraCommands = "mkdir -p proc sys dev";
+  });
+
+  formatAttr = "tarball";
+}