Building NixOS images for aarch64 from a x86 Build Platform

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:28:39 -0500

In my homelab I run many different single board computers, among them Odroid M1s. However, there’s various versions of Raspbian, Armbian, and Debian, each of them using some custom tweaks. And that’s a lot of time to maintain them. So I really like the idea of NixOS and read that it can be used to build bootable images for computers. I haven’t fully built intuition for all parts in this so it took me a while to get this working. Here’s my notes.

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Building NixOS images for aarch64 from a x86 Build Platform