Use disko with `nixos-rebuild build-vm-with-bootloader` or something similar

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Hello, I’m figuring a way to quickly generate VMs to test out different disko configurations.
I hoped that nixos-rebuild build-vm-with-bootloader will use disko to do partitioning, but apparently it’s not the case.

Can anyone suggest some easy workflow to generate VMs from nixos configurations with disko disk partitioning schemes?

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have you managed to figure this out?

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well, sorta:

I’ve settled with the approach described in disko repo: disko/docs/disko-images.md at bad376945de7033c7adc424c02054ea3736cf7c4 · nix-community/disko · GitHub

so it’s not a one-line solution, and it requires generating intermediate raw image, so it’s not quite a one-liner, but it does solve the problem

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