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+# Copyright 2024 Edgeless Systems GmbH
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
+
+# Builds a micro VM image (i.e. rootfs, kernel and kernel cmdline) from a NixOS
+# configuration. These components can then be booted in a microVM-fashion
+# with QEMU's direct Linux boot feature.
+# See: https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/system/linuxboot.html
+
+{
+  symlinkJoin,
+  lib,
+}:
+
+nixos-config:
+
+let
+  image = nixos-config.image.overrideAttrs (oldAttrs: {
+    passthru = oldAttrs.passthru // {
+      imageFile = "${oldAttrs.pname}_${oldAttrs.version}.raw";
+    };
+  });
+in
+
+lib.throwIf
+  (lib.foldlAttrs (
+    acc: _: partConfig:
+    acc || (partConfig.repartConfig.Type == "esp")
+  ) false nixos-config.config.image.repart.partitions)
+  "MicroVM images should not contain an ESP."
+
+  symlinkJoin
+  {
+    pname = "microvm-image";
+    inherit (nixos-config.config.system.image) version;
+
+    paths = [
+      nixos-config.config.system.build.kernel
+      nixos-config.config.system.build.initialRamdisk
+      image
+    ];
+
+    passthru =
+      let
+        roothash = builtins.head (
+          lib.map (e: e.roothash) (builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile "${image}/repart-output.json"))
+        );
+      in
+      {
+        cmdline = lib.concatStringsSep " " (
+          nixos-config.config.boot.kernelParams
+          ++ [
+            "init=${nixos-config.config.system.build.toplevel}/init"
+            "roothash=${roothash}"
+          ]
+        );
+        inherit (image) imageFile;
+      };
+  }