> I’d rather not do this. Is this really a property of the operating > system definition? Making it part of would make it > difficult to use the same definition for containers, virtual machines, > or bare-metal instantiations. You're right. #:container? and #:container-shared-network? are not properties of the operating system definition. Please disregard my proposal. Any other ideas for possible implementation of this feature? It seems to me like Christopher Baines' original implementation is the only way to do it.