attempts to add qcow-efi to get oracle to work

and also adding things from the oci build

flake.nix

@@ -215,8 +215,9 @@
           };
           "${name}-qcow" = lib.generateImage {
             inherit system module;
-            format = "qcow";
+            format = "qcow-efi";
             specialArgs = { inherit hostnames; };
+            # extraModules = [ "${nixpkgs}/nixos/modules/virtualisation/oci-image.nix" ];
           };
         }) hosts)
       ) lib.linuxHosts # x86_64-linux = { arrow = ...; swan = ...; }
@@ -235,6 +236,12 @@
         //
           # Share generated images for each relevant host
           (if (lib.hasInfix "linux" system) then generators.${system} else { })
+
+        # //
+        #   # Oracle
+        #   {
+        #     flame-oci = nixosConfigurations.flame.config.system.build.OCIImage;
+        #   }
       );
 
       # Development environments

hosts/aarch64-linux/flame/default.nix

@@ -58,4 +58,55 @@ rec {
       ca = "ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNTYAAAAIbmlzdHAyNTYAAABBBK/6oyVqjFGX3Uvrc3VS8J9sphxzAnRzKC85xgkHfYgR3TK6qBGXzHrknEj21xeZrr3G2y1UsGzphWJd9ZfIcdA= open-ssh-ca@cloudflareaccess.org";
     };
   };
+
+  # Taken from https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/virtualisation/oci-common.nix
+
+  # Taken from /proc/cmdline of Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS on OCI
+  boot.kernelParams = [
+    "nvme.shutdown_timeout=10"
+    "nvme_core.shutdown_timeout=10"
+    "libiscsi.debug_libiscsi_eh=1"
+    "crash_kexec_post_notifiers"
+    # VNC console
+    "console=tty1"
+    # x86_64-linux
+    "console=ttyS0"
+    # aarch64-linux
+    "console=ttyAMA0,115200"
+  ];
+
+  boot.growPartition = true;
+
+  fileSystems."/" = {
+    device = "/dev/disk/by-label/nixos";
+    fsType = "ext4";
+    autoResize = true;
+  };
+
+  fileSystems."/boot" = {
+    device = "/dev/disk/by-label/ESP";
+    fsType = "vfat";
+  };
+
+  boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = false;
+  boot.loader.grub = {
+    device = "nodev";
+    splashImage = null;
+    extraConfig = ''
+      serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1
+      terminal_input --append serial
+      terminal_output --append serial
+    '';
+    efiInstallAsRemovable = true;
+    efiSupport = true;
+  };
+
+  # https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Compute/Tasks/configuringntpservice.htm#Configuring_the_Oracle_Cloud_Infrastructure_NTP_Service_for_an_Instance
+  networking.timeServers = [ "169.254.169.254" ];
+
+  services.openssh.enable = true;
+
+  # Otherwise the instance may not have a working network-online.target,
+  # making the fetch-ssh-keys.service fail
+  networking.useNetworkd = true;
 }

lib/default.nix

@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ lib
       nmasur.profiles.wsl.enable = lib.mkForce false;
       boot.loader.grub.enable = lib.mkForce false;
     };
-    qcow = {
+    qcow-efi = {
       nmasur.profiles.wsl.enable = lib.mkForce false;
       boot.loader.grub.enable = lib.mkForce false;
     };