anchor.diff:    targets = map (x: x.target) contents;
   
     prepareImage = ''
  -    export PATH=${pkgs.lib.makeSearchPathOutput "bin" "bin" prepareImageInputs}
  +    export PATH=${makeSearchPathOutput "bin" "bin" prepareImageInputs}
   
       mkdir $out
       diskImage=nixos.raw
  
positive.code:     # shut it up someday but trying to do a stderr filter through grep is running into some nasty
      # bug in some eval nonsense we have in runInLinuxVM and I'm sick of trying to fix it.
      faketime -f "1970-01-01 00:00:00" \
        cptofs ${pkgs.lib.optionalString partitioned "-P 1"} -t ${fsType} -i $diskImage $root/* /
    '';
  in pkgs.vmTools.runInLinuxVM (
    pkgs.runCommand name
  
negative.code:     ''}
  
      faketime -f "1970-01-01 00:00:01" mkfs.${fsType} -F -L nixos -E offset=$offset $diskImage
  
      root="$PWD/root"
      mkdir -p $root
  
  