drv.run

[!IMPORTANT] This project is a WORK IN PROGRESS.

This project aims to build a sort of exe.dev experience at a smaller scale and specifically built around Nix, because Nix is awesome.

What's the Big Idea?

ssh drv.run sourcehut:~bombadil/drv.run

which lands you, the human operator, in a remote microvm where the guest environment is derived from the given flake reference (this repo, as it happens).

Prior art and credits

• https://exe.dev
• https://git.sr.ht/~alexdavid/jail.nix
• https://github.com/microvm-nix/microvm.nix
• https://github.com/willruggiano/neovim.drv
• https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-02-01-coding-agent-microvm-nix

One day we should look into...

• https://github.com/kitknox/rootshell
• https://github.com/neurosnap/zmx
• https://github.com/trzsz/trzsz-ssh
• https://github.com/jetkvm/kvm
• https://github.com/baptiste0928/jj-mesh