Adventures in building disk images of NixOS virtual machines for M1

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I work in a thoroughly Nix-based environment, and sometimes I need to test NixOS things, but I have a Mac at work. So, time to get a NixOS VM going on the M1, I guess! This was a partially-planned adventure. People I know have been saying good things about the (mostly) qemu wrapper UTM ( also on GitHub here ), so that was the tool of choice. I kind of didn't realize there were normal…

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