make-disk-image: add binfmt emulation #943
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Now it's possible to build images for other architectures with native speed using KVM.
Binfmt emulation is only needed for the bootloader installation step, other steps use native binaries.
To use it, set imageBuilder.enableBinfmt to true, and pass a new nixpkgs instance to the image builder, with the system set to the running machine.
Example, building an aarch64 image on an x86_64 host: