diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index 6a1ba88b..0605c0f5 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@
       bolty = mkServer nixpkgs-stable "x86_64-linux" "bolty";
       cupsnet = mkServer nixpkgs-stable "aarch64-linux" "cupsnet";
       mb1 = mkServer nixpkgs-stable "x86_64-linux" "mb1";
+      airnix = mkServer nixpkgs-stable "aarch64-linux" "airnix";
       homescreen = mkRaspi nixpkgs-stable "homescreen";
 
       bootstrap = nixpkgs-stable.lib.nixosSystem rec {
diff --git a/nixos/boxes/airnix/README.md b/nixos/boxes/airnix/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..201468d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/boxes/airnix/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+## this is a VM on mac book air M1, so aarch64
+
+- boot from minimal nixos installer image
+
+  > 604ad1abbcfdd93bc6258be695a7d289756921c0e6d9b4f3afb8e98c823052ec nixos-minimal-24.05.2780.53e81e790209-aarch64-linux.iso
+  > https://releases.nixos.org/nixos/unstable/nixos-23.05pre470969.0e19daa510e/nixos-minimal-23.05pre470969.0e19daa510e-x86_64-linux.iso
+
+- launch in paralells
+- change root password
+- From macbook host `nix run github:numtide/nixos-anywhere -- root@IP --flake '.#airnix'`
diff --git a/nixos/boxes/airnix/boot.nix b/nixos/boxes/airnix/boot.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..19483e80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/boxes/airnix/boot.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+  config,
+  pkgs,
+  inputs,
+  lib,
+  ...
+}: {
+  boot.loader.systemd-boot.enable = true;
+  boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true;
+  boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_latest;
+}
diff --git a/nixos/boxes/airnix/default.nix b/nixos/boxes/airnix/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2ee0a45a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/boxes/airnix/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{
+  config,
+  pkgs,
+  inputs,
+  lib,
+  ...
+}: {
+  imports = [
+    "${inputs.nixpkgs-stable}/nixos/modules/profiles/qemu-guest.nix"
+    ../cli.nix
+    ../send-logs.nix
+    ./boot.nix
+    ./disks.nix
+  ];
+  networking.hostName = "airnix";
+
+  zramSwap = {
+    enable = true;
+    algorithm = "zstd";
+    memoryPercent = 100;
+  };
+
+  time.timeZone = "Europe/London";
+}
diff --git a/nixos/boxes/airnix/disks.nix b/nixos/boxes/airnix/disks.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ef85d323
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/boxes/airnix/disks.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{
+  disko.devices = {
+    disk = {
+      a = {
+        type = "disk";
+        device = "/dev/sda";
+        content = {
+          type = "gpt";
+          partitions = {
+            ESP = {
+              size = "64M";
+              type = "EF00";
+              content = {
+                type = "filesystem";
+                format = "vfat";
+                mountpoint = "/boot";
+              };
+            };
+            zfs = {
+              size = "100%";
+              content = {
+                type = "zfs";
+                pool = "zroot";
+              };
+            };
+          };
+        };
+      };
+    };
+    zpool = {
+      zroot = {
+        type = "zpool";
+        mode = "mirror";
+        rootFsOptions = {
+          compression = "zstd";
+        };
+        mountpoint = "/";
+
+        datasets = {
+        };
+      };
+    };
+  };
+}