Add Proxmox VM disk-image building; fix disko confirmation bypass

modules/disko/proxmox.nix gains imageSize (20G default) and a
per-host imageName (networking.hostName, so every proxmox-* host
produces a distinctly named image instead of an identical main.raw).
This is the same disko.devices config already used to format a real
disk on install, so it's available for every proxmox-* target with no
per-host changes needed:

  nix build .#nixosConfigurations.<host>.config.system.build.diskoImagesScript
  sudo ./result --build-memory 2048

docs/proxmox-images.md covers building, host-key pre-seeding via
disko's --pre-format-files (same host-keys/ workflow as the installer
and LXC tarball paths), and the qm import/attach sequence for
deploying the result to Proxmox.

Also fixes a real bug in auto-install.sh found while testing: the
disko confirmation bypass used --yes, which disko's CLI doesn't
recognize at all (the actual flag is --yes-wipe-all-disks) — so the
"skip confirmation" flag was silently a no-op and the interactive
prompt kept appearing regardless.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01La55Nsss8jZ7ZuzUV9mfot
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# Proxmox VM disk images
`proxmox-*` hosts (VM platform, not `lxc-*`) can be built as standalone,
ready-to-attach `.raw` disk images via disko's own image-builder — no
`nixos-install`, no live installer boot. This uses the same `disko.devices`
config (`modules/disko/proxmox.nix`) already used to format a real disk on
install, so there's nothing host-specific to write; it's available for every
`proxmox-*` target automatically.
## Building
```sh
nix build .#nixosConfigurations.proxmox-server.config.system.build.diskoImagesScript
sudo ./result --build-memory 2048
```
This produces `<hostname>.raw` in the current directory (e.g. `server.raw`
for `proxmox-server`, matching `networking.hostName`, not the flake attribute
name — every `proxmox-*` host gets a distinctly named image instead of all
of them producing an identical `main.raw`). The script builds inside a
temporary QEMU VM and moves the finished image out to the working directory
when done; `--build-memory` controls how much RAM that build VM gets.
`disko.devices.disk.main.imageSize` (currently `20G`, in
`modules/disko/proxmox.nix`) sets the image's total size — disko doesn't
support auto-resizing, so this needs to comfortably fit ESP + swap + root at
build time. Grow the virtual disk (and resize the filesystem) in Proxmox
after attaching if a host needs more than that; this is the normal way to
size these images, not a one-time decision to get exactly right up front.
## Host keys
The disko image script runs a real activation pass inside its temporary
build VM while constructing the image — the same sops-nix
activation-before-first-boot problem the installer and LXC tarball workflows
have (see `docs/auto-installer.md`) applies here too, unmodified. Disko has
a native mechanism for it:
```sh
sudo ./result \
--pre-format-files host-keys/server_ssh_host_ed25519_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key \
--pre-format-files host-keys/server_ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub \
--build-memory 2048
```
Generate the key first with `scripts/prepare-host-key.sh <hostname>`, same
as any other host — see `docs/auto-installer.md` for the full sops.yaml
registration walkthrough.
## Deploying to Proxmox
The image needs **UEFI (OVMF)**, not Proxmox's default SeaBIOS —
`modules/boot/efi.nix` uses `systemd-boot`, which only works with UEFI
firmware. `virtio-scsi` is safe to use as the disk bus:
`hardware-configuration/vm/proxmox.nix` already includes `virtio_scsi` in
its initrd kernel modules.
1. Copy the image to the Proxmox host:
```sh
scp server.raw root@<proxmox-host>:/var/lib/vz/import/
```
2. Create an empty VM shell (no disk yet) — replace `<vmid>` with a free ID
and `<storage>` with your storage pool's name (`pvesm status` or
Datacenter → Storage in the web UI):
```sh
qm create <vmid> --name proxmox-server --memory 2048 --cores 2 \
--net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr0 \
--bios ovmf --machine q35 \
--scsihw virtio-scsi-pci \
--efidisk0 <storage>:1,efitype=4m,pre-enrolled-keys=0
```
(`--efidisk0` is required for UEFI — it's where OVMF persists boot-entry
NVRAM; without it, systemd-boot's boot entry may not survive a reboot.)
3. Import the raw disk into storage:
```sh
qm importdisk <vmid> /var/lib/vz/import/server.raw <storage>
```
This prints the resulting disk identifier (e.g. `vm-<vmid>-disk-1`).
4. Attach it and set it as the boot disk:
```sh
qm set <vmid> --scsi0 <storage>:vm-<vmid>-disk-1
qm set <vmid> --boot order=scsi0
```
5. Boot it:
```sh
qm start <vmid>
```
No install step — it boots straight into the already-activated system.
## Why not `nix build .#nixosConfigurations.<host>.config.system.build.vm`?
That's a different, unrelated feature — `system.build.vm` (`nixos-rebuild
build-vm`) produces an ephemeral QEMU script for locally testing a
configuration, not a distributable disk image. It's not part of this
workflow.