Provided a VM to spin up and test Vim in

applications/editors/vim_vm.nix

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+# Nix configuration for a VM to run a custom configured Vim
+#
+# It is intended as an example of building a VM that builds Vim for testing
+# and evaluation purposes. It does not represent a production or secure
+# deployment.
+
+{ config, pkgs, lib, ... }:
+
+{
+  environment = {
+    systemPackages = with pkgs; [
+      (
+        import ./vim.nix
+      )
+    ];
+  };
+
+
+  networking.hostName = "vim-vm";   # Define your hostname.
+
+  system.stateVersion = "19.03";    # The version of NixOS originally installed
+
+  # Set security options:
+  security = {
+    sudo = {
+      enable = true;                # Enable sudo
+      wheelNeedsPassword = false;   # Allow wheel members to run sudo without a passowrd
+    };
+  };
+
+  networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ 80 ];
+
+  # List services that you want to enable:
+  services.openssh = {
+    enable = true;                             # Enable the OpenSSH daemon.
+    #permitRootLogin = "yes";                  # Probably want to change this in production
+    #challengeResponseAuthentication = true;   # Probably want to change this in production
+    #passwordAuthentication = true;            # Probably want to change this in production
+    openFirewall = true;
+    hostKeys = [
+      {
+        path = "/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key";   # Generate a key for the vm
+        type = "ed25519";                         # Use the current best key type
+      }
+    ];
+  };
+
+  # Users of the Vim VM:
+  users.mutableUsers = false;        # Remove any users not defined in here
+
+  users.users.root = {
+    password = "123456";             # Probably want to change this in production
+  };
+
+  # Misc groups:
+  users.groups.nixos.gid = 1000;
+
+  # NixOS users
+  users.users.nixos = {
+    isNormalUser = true;
+    uid = 1000;
+    group = "nixos";
+    extraGroups = [ "wheel" ];
+    password = "123456";             # Probably want to change this in production
+  };
+
+}