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hosts/cube/configuration.nix

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+{ config, pkgs, ... }:
+
+{
+  imports =
+    [
+      # Include the results of the hardware scan.
+      ./hardware-configuration.nix
+    ];
+
+  boot.loader.grub.enable = true;
+  boot.loader.grub.version = 2;
+  boot.loader.grub.device = "/dev/vda"; # or "nodev" for efi only
+
+  networking.hostName = "cube"; # Define your hostname.
+  time.timeZone = "Australia/Brisbane";
+
+  networking.useDHCP = false;
+  networking.interfaces.ens3.useDHCP = true;
+  i18n.defaultLocale = "en_US.UTF-8";
+
+  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
+    vim
+    gitAndTools.gitFull
+  ];
+
+  # This value determines the NixOS release from which the default
+  # settings for stateful data, like file locations and database versions
+  # on your system were taken. It‘s perfectly fine and recommended to leave
+  # this value at the release version of the first install of this system.
+  # Before changing this value read the documentation for this option
+  # (e.g. man configuration.nix or on https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html).
+  system.stateVersion = "21.11"; # Did you read the comment?
+}
+

hosts/cube/default.nix

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+{ profiles, suites, ... }:
+{
+  imports = [
+    ./configuration.nix
+  ] ++ suites.cube;
+
+  home-manager.users.anish = { self, suites, ... }: {
+    imports = [ ] ++ suites.hmBase;
+  };
+}

hosts/cube/hardware-configuration.nix

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+# Do not modify this file!  It was generated by ‘nixos-generate-config’
+# and may be overwritten by future invocations.  Please make changes
+# to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix instead.
+{ config, lib, pkgs, modulesPath, ... }:
+
+{
+  imports =
+    [ (modulesPath + "/profiles/qemu-guest.nix")
+    ];
+
+  boot.initrd.availableKernelModules = [ "ata_piix" "uhci_hcd" "virtio_pci" "sr_mod" "virtio_blk" ];
+  boot.initrd.kernelModules = [ ];
+  boot.kernelModules = [ ];
+  boot.extraModulePackages = [ ];
+
+  fileSystems."/" =
+    { device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/9233d8be-539f-43c8-9b83-84b5b4d72a93";
+      fsType = "ext4";
+    };
+
+  fileSystems."/boot" =
+    { device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/E00D-9070";
+      fsType = "vfat";
+    };
+
+  swapDevices = [ ];
+
+  hardware.cpu.intel.updateMicrocode = lib.mkDefault config.hardware.enableRedistributableFirmware;
+}