Switch LXC targets from NetworkManager to systemd-networkd
Check NixOS configurations / eval-hosts (push) Failing after 11m15s

boot.isContainer disables services.udev, which NetworkManager depends on
to enumerate devices — this left NM unable to reliably manage the
container veth, breaking DHCP-hostname registration in Pi-hole. It also
defaulted networking.useHostResolvConf to true, which assumes a
systemd-nspawn-style resolv.conf bind-mount that real Proxmox LXC doesn't
provide (nixpkgs' own proxmox-lxc.nix module forces this false for the
same reason). Also guard the networkmanager extraGroups membership in the
minimal/gui build-types, since that group only exists when NM is enabled.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01La55Nsss8jZ7ZuzUV9mfot
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2026-07-20 01:16:29 +10:00
co-authored by Claude Sonnet 5
parent bbc6124dc0
commit 326e764f51
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{ ... }:
{ lib, ... }:
{
boot.isContainer = true;
@@ -11,4 +11,20 @@
# file doesn't correctly launch the current generation, so even a
# correctly-installed system can fail to come up after reboot.
boot.loader.initScript.enable = true;
# boot.isContainer disables services.udev (see nixpkgs'
# virtualisation/container-config.nix), and NetworkManager depends on a
# running udevd to enumerate/classify devices. That leaves NM unable to
# reliably manage the container's veth interface, which is what broke
# DHCP-hostname registration in Pi-hole. systemd-networkd talks to the
# kernel over rtnetlink directly and doesn't have that dependency.
networking.networkmanager.enable = lib.mkForce false;
networking.useNetworkd = true;
# container-config.nix also defaults this to true, which assumes a
# systemd-nspawn-style host bind-mount of /etc/resolv.conf. Real Proxmox
# LXC doesn't do that (nixpkgs' own virtualisation/proxmox-lxc.nix module
# forces this false for the same reason), so leaving it true silently
# breaks DNS instead of falling back to networkd/DHCP-provided servers.
networking.useHostResolvConf = lib.mkForce false;
}