diff --git a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
index bfac651f5a81..55c74bc327da 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
@@ -1506,6 +1506,7 @@
   ./virtualisation/docker.nix
   ./virtualisation/ecs-agent.nix
   ./virtualisation/hyperv-guest.nix
+  ./virtualisation/incus.nix
   ./virtualisation/kvmgt.nix
   ./virtualisation/libvirtd.nix
   ./virtualisation/lxc.nix
diff --git a/nixos/modules/virtualisation/incus.nix b/nixos/modules/virtualisation/incus.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d7ccc963f6a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/modules/virtualisation/incus.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,232 @@
+{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
+
+let
+  cfg = config.virtualisation.incus;
+  preseedFormat = pkgs.formats.yaml { };
+in
+{
+  meta.maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.adamcstephens ];
+
+  options = {
+    virtualisation.incus = {
+      enable = lib.mkEnableOption (lib.mdDoc ''
+        incusd, a daemon that manages containers and virtual machines.
+
+        Users in the "incus-admin" group can interact with
+        the daemon (e.g. to start or stop containers) using the
+        {command}`incus` command line tool, among others.
+      '');
+
+      package = lib.mkPackageOptionMD pkgs "incus" { };
+
+      lxcPackage = lib.mkPackageOptionMD pkgs "lxc" { };
+
+      preseed = lib.mkOption {
+        type = lib.types.nullOr (
+          lib.types.submodule { freeformType = preseedFormat.type; }
+        );
+
+        default = null;
+
+        description = lib.mdDoc ''
+          Configuration for Incus preseed, see
+          <https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/howto/initialize/#non-interactive-configuration>
+          for supported values.
+
+          Changes to this will be re-applied to Incus which will overwrite existing entities or create missing ones,
+          but entities will *not* be removed by preseed.
+        '';
+
+        example = {
+          networks = [
+            {
+              name = "incusbr0";
+              type = "bridge";
+              config = {
+                "ipv4.address" = "10.0.100.1/24";
+                "ipv4.nat" = "true";
+              };
+            }
+          ];
+          profiles = [
+            {
+              name = "default";
+              devices = {
+                eth0 = {
+                  name = "eth0";
+                  network = "incusbr0";
+                  type = "nic";
+                };
+                root = {
+                  path = "/";
+                  pool = "default";
+                  size = "35GiB";
+                  type = "disk";
+                };
+              };
+            }
+          ];
+          storage_pools = [
+            {
+              name = "default";
+              driver = "dir";
+              config = {
+                source = "/var/lib/incus/storage-pools/default";
+              };
+            }
+          ];
+        };
+      };
+
+      socketActivation = lib.mkEnableOption (
+        lib.mdDoc ''
+          socket-activation for starting incus.service. Enabling this option
+          will stop incus.service from starting automatically on boot.
+        ''
+      );
+
+      startTimeout = lib.mkOption {
+        type = lib.types.ints.unsigned;
+        default = 600;
+        apply = toString;
+        description = lib.mdDoc ''
+          Time to wait (in seconds) for incusd to become ready to process requests.
+          If incusd does not reply within the configured time, `incus.service` will be
+          considered failed and systemd will attempt to restart it.
+        '';
+      };
+    };
+  };
+
+  config = lib.mkIf cfg.enable {
+    # https://github.com/lxc/incus/blob/f145309929f849b9951658ad2ba3b8f10cbe69d1/doc/reference/server_settings.md
+    boot.kernel.sysctl = {
+      "fs.aio-max-nr" = lib.mkDefault 524288;
+      "fs.inotify.max_queued_events" = lib.mkDefault 1048576;
+      "fs.inotify.max_user_instances" = lib.mkOverride 1050 1048576; # override in case conflict nixos/modules/services/x11/xserver.nix
+      "fs.inotify.max_user_watches" = lib.mkOverride 1050 1048576; # override in case conflict nixos/modules/services/x11/xserver.nix
+      "kernel.dmesg_restrict" = lib.mkDefault 1;
+      "kernel.keys.maxbytes" = lib.mkDefault 2000000;
+      "kernel.keys.maxkeys" = lib.mkDefault 2000;
+      "net.core.bpf_jit_limit" = lib.mkDefault 1000000000;
+      "net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_thresh3" = lib.mkDefault 8192;
+      "net.ipv6.neigh.default.gc_thresh3" = lib.mkDefault 8192;
+      # vm.max_map_count is set higher in nixos/modules/config/sysctl.nix
+    };
+
+    boot.kernelModules = [
+      "veth"
+      "xt_comment"
+      "xt_CHECKSUM"
+      "xt_MASQUERADE"
+      "vhost_vsock"
+    ] ++ lib.optionals (!config.networking.nftables.enable) [ "iptable_mangle" ];
+
+    environment.systemPackages = [ cfg.package ];
+
+    # Note: the following options are also declared in virtualisation.lxc, but
+    # the latter can't be simply enabled to reuse the formers, because it
+    # does a bunch of unrelated things.
+    systemd.tmpfiles.rules = [ "d /var/lib/lxc/rootfs 0755 root root -" ];
+
+    security.apparmor = {
+      packages = [ cfg.lxcPackage ];
+      policies = {
+        "bin.lxc-start".profile = ''
+          include ${cfg.lxcPackage}/etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.lxc-start
+        '';
+        "lxc-containers".profile = ''
+          include ${cfg.lxcPackage}/etc/apparmor.d/lxc-containers
+        '';
+      };
+    };
+
+    systemd.services.incus = {
+      description = "Incus Container and Virtual Machine Management Daemon";
+
+      wantedBy = lib.mkIf (!cfg.socketActivation) [ "multi-user.target" ];
+      after = [
+        "network-online.target"
+        "lxcfs.service"
+      ] ++ (lib.optional cfg.socketActivation "incus.socket");
+      requires = [
+        "lxcfs.service"
+      ] ++ (lib.optional cfg.socketActivation "incus.socket");
+      wants = [
+        "network-online.target"
+      ];
+
+      path = lib.mkIf config.boot.zfs.enabled [ config.boot.zfs.package ];
+
+      environment = {
+        # Override Path to the LXC template configuration directory
+        INCUS_LXC_TEMPLATE_CONFIG = "${pkgs.lxcfs}/share/lxc/config";
+      };
+
+      serviceConfig = {
+        ExecStart = "${cfg.package}/bin/incusd --group incus-admin";
+        ExecStartPost = "${cfg.package}/bin/incusd waitready --timeout=${cfg.startTimeout}";
+
+        KillMode = "process"; # when stopping, leave the containers alone
+        Delegate = "yes";
+        LimitMEMLOCK = "infinity";
+        LimitNOFILE = "1048576";
+        LimitNPROC = "infinity";
+        TasksMax = "infinity";
+
+        Restart = "on-failure";
+        TimeoutStartSec = "${cfg.startTimeout}s";
+        TimeoutStopSec = "30s";
+      };
+    };
+
+    systemd.sockets.incus = lib.mkIf cfg.socketActivation {
+      description = "Incus UNIX socket";
+      wantedBy = [ "sockets.target" ];
+
+      socketConfig = {
+        ListenStream = "/var/lib/incus/unix.socket";
+        SocketMode = "0660";
+        SocketGroup = "incus-admin";
+        Service = "incus.service";
+      };
+    };
+
+    systemd.services.incus-preseed = lib.mkIf (cfg.preseed != null) {
+      description = "Incus initialization with preseed file";
+      wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
+      requires = [ "incus.service" ];
+      after = [ "incus.service" ];
+
+      script = ''
+        ${cfg.package}/bin/incus admin init --preseed <${
+          preseedFormat.generate "incus-preseed.yaml" cfg.preseed
+        }
+      '';
+
+      serviceConfig = {
+        Type = "oneshot";
+      };
+    };
+
+    users.groups.incus-admin = { };
+
+    users.users.root = {
+      # match documented default ranges https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/userns-idmap/#allowed-ranges
+      subUidRanges = [
+        {
+          startUid = 1000000;
+          count = 1000000000;
+        }
+      ];
+      subGidRanges = [
+        {
+          startGid = 1000000;
+          count = 1000000000;
+        }
+      ];
+    };
+
+    virtualisation.lxc.lxcfs.enable = true;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
index 2f6d5a8dae88..69549c8d5349 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
@@ -392,6 +392,7 @@ in {
   icingaweb2 = handleTest ./icingaweb2.nix {};
   iftop = handleTest ./iftop.nix {};
   incron = handleTest ./incron.nix {};
+  incus = pkgs.recurseIntoAttrs (handleTest ./incus { inherit handleTestOn; });
   influxdb = handleTest ./influxdb.nix {};
   influxdb2 = handleTest ./influxdb2.nix {};
   initrd-network-openvpn = handleTest ./initrd-network-openvpn {};
diff --git a/nixos/tests/incus/container.nix b/nixos/tests/incus/container.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ce9a8a10fb25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/tests/incus/container.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+import ../make-test-python.nix ({ pkgs, lib, ... } :
+
+let
+  releases = import ../../release.nix {
+    configuration = {
+      # Building documentation makes the test unnecessarily take a longer time:
+      documentation.enable = lib.mkForce false;
+    };
+  };
+
+  container-image-metadata = releases.lxdContainerMeta.${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system};
+  container-image-rootfs = releases.lxdContainerImage.${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system};
+in
+{
+  name = "incus-container";
+
+  meta.maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ adamcstephens ];
+
+  nodes.machine = { ... }: {
+    virtualisation = {
+      # Ensure test VM has enough resources for creating and managing guests
+      cores = 2;
+      memorySize = 1024;
+      diskSize = 4096;
+
+      incus.enable = true;
+    };
+  };
+
+  testScript = ''
+    def instance_is_up(_) -> bool:
+      status, _ = machine.execute("incus exec container --disable-stdin --force-interactive /run/current-system/sw/bin/true")
+      return status == 0
+
+    machine.wait_for_unit("incus.service")
+
+    # no preseed should mean no service
+    machine.fail("systemctl status incus-preseed.service")
+
+    machine.succeed("incus admin init --minimal")
+
+    with subtest("Container image can be imported"):
+        machine.succeed("incus image import ${container-image-metadata}/*/*.tar.xz ${container-image-rootfs}/*/*.tar.xz --alias nixos")
+
+    with subtest("Container can be launched and managed"):
+        machine.succeed("incus launch nixos container")
+        with machine.nested("Waiting for instance to start and be usable"):
+          retry(instance_is_up)
+        machine.succeed("echo true | incus exec container /run/current-system/sw/bin/bash -")
+
+    with subtest("Container CPU limits can be managed"):
+        machine.succeed("incus config set container limits.cpu 1")
+        # give container a chance to apply new resource limit
+        machine.sleep(1)
+        cpuinfo = machine.succeed("incus exec container grep -- -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo").strip()
+        assert cpuinfo == "1", f"Wrong number of CPUs reported from /proc/cpuinfo, want: 1, got: {cpuinfo}"
+
+        machine.succeed("incus config set container limits.cpu 2")
+        machine.sleep(1)
+        cpuinfo = machine.succeed("incus exec container grep -- -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo").strip()
+        assert cpuinfo == "2", f"Wrong number of CPUs reported from /proc/cpuinfo, want: 2, got: {cpuinfo}"
+
+    with subtest("Container memory limits can be managed"):
+        machine.succeed("incus config set container limits.memory 64MB")
+        machine.sleep(1)
+        meminfo = machine.succeed("incus exec container grep -- MemTotal /proc/meminfo").strip()
+        meminfo_bytes = " ".join(meminfo.split(' ')[-2:])
+        assert meminfo_bytes == "62500 kB", f"Wrong amount of memory reported from /proc/meminfo, want: '62500 kB', got: '{meminfo_bytes}'"
+
+        machine.succeed("incus config set container limits.memory 128MB")
+        machine.sleep(1)
+        meminfo = machine.succeed("incus exec container grep -- MemTotal /proc/meminfo").strip()
+        meminfo_bytes = " ".join(meminfo.split(' ')[-2:])
+        assert meminfo_bytes == "125000 kB", f"Wrong amount of memory reported from /proc/meminfo, want: '62500 kB', got: '{meminfo_bytes}'"
+  '';
+})
diff --git a/nixos/tests/incus/default.nix b/nixos/tests/incus/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c88974605e30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/tests/incus/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+{
+  system ? builtins.currentSystem,
+  config ? { },
+  pkgs ? import ../../.. { inherit system config; },
+  handleTestOn,
+}:
+{
+  container = import ./container.nix { inherit system pkgs; };
+  preseed = import ./preseed.nix { inherit system pkgs; };
+  socket-activated = import ./socket-activated.nix { inherit system pkgs; };
+  virtual-machine = handleTestOn [ "x86_64-linux" ] ./virtual-machine.nix {
+    inherit system pkgs;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/nixos/tests/incus/preseed.nix b/nixos/tests/incus/preseed.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..19ec3889093c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/tests/incus/preseed.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+import ../make-test-python.nix ({ pkgs, lib, ... } :
+
+{
+  name = "incus-preseed";
+
+  meta.maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ adamcstephens ];
+
+  nodes.machine = { lib, ... }: {
+    virtualisation = {
+      incus.enable = true;
+
+      incus.preseed = {
+        networks = [
+          {
+            name = "nixostestbr0";
+            type = "bridge";
+            config = {
+              "ipv4.address" = "10.0.100.1/24";
+              "ipv4.nat" = "true";
+            };
+          }
+        ];
+        profiles = [
+          {
+            name = "nixostest_default";
+            devices = {
+              eth0 = {
+                name = "eth0";
+                network = "nixostestbr0";
+                type = "nic";
+              };
+              root = {
+                path = "/";
+                pool = "default";
+                size = "35GiB";
+                type = "disk";
+              };
+            };
+          }
+        ];
+        storage_pools = [
+          {
+            name = "nixostest_pool";
+            driver = "dir";
+          }
+        ];
+      };
+    };
+  };
+
+  testScript = ''
+    def wait_for_preseed(_) -> bool:
+      _, output = machine.systemctl("is-active incus-preseed.service")
+      return ("inactive" in output)
+
+    machine.wait_for_unit("incus.service")
+    with machine.nested("Waiting for preseed to complete"):
+      retry(wait_for_preseed)
+
+    with subtest("Verify preseed resources created"):
+      machine.succeed("incus profile show nixostest_default")
+      machine.succeed("incus network info nixostestbr0")
+      machine.succeed("incus storage show nixostest_pool")
+  '';
+})
diff --git a/nixos/tests/incus/socket-activated.nix b/nixos/tests/incus/socket-activated.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e48831cd3cb3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/tests/incus/socket-activated.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import ../make-test-python.nix ({ pkgs, lib, ... } :
+
+{
+  name = "incus-socket-activated";
+
+  meta.maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ adamcstephens ];
+
+  nodes.machine = { lib, ... }: {
+    virtualisation = {
+      incus.enable = true;
+      incus.socketActivation = true;
+    };
+  };
+
+  testScript = ''
+    machine.wait_for_unit("incus.socket")
+
+    # ensure service is not running by default
+    machine.fail("systemctl is-active incus.service")
+
+    # access the socket and ensure the service starts
+    machine.succeed("incus list")
+    machine.wait_for_unit("incus.service")
+  '';
+})
diff --git a/nixos/tests/incus/virtual-machine.nix b/nixos/tests/incus/virtual-machine.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bfa116679d43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/tests/incus/virtual-machine.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+import ../make-test-python.nix ({ pkgs, lib, ... }:
+
+let
+  releases = import ../../release.nix {
+    configuration = {
+      # Building documentation makes the test unnecessarily take a longer time:
+      documentation.enable = lib.mkForce false;
+
+      # Our tests require `grep` & friends:
+      environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [busybox];
+    };
+  };
+
+  vm-image-metadata = releases.lxdVirtualMachineImageMeta.${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system};
+  vm-image-disk = releases.lxdVirtualMachineImage.${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system};
+
+  instance-name = "instance1";
+in
+{
+  name = "incus-virtual-machine";
+
+  meta.maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ adamcstephens ];
+
+  nodes.machine = {...}: {
+    virtualisation = {
+      # Ensure test VM has enough resources for creating and managing guests
+      cores = 2;
+      memorySize = 1024;
+      diskSize = 4096;
+
+      incus.enable = true;
+    };
+  };
+
+  testScript = ''
+    def instance_is_up(_) -> bool:
+      status, _ = machine.execute("incus exec ${instance-name} --disable-stdin --force-interactive /run/current-system/sw/bin/true")
+      return status == 0
+
+    machine.wait_for_unit("incus.service")
+
+    machine.succeed("incus admin init --minimal")
+
+    with subtest("virtual-machine image can be imported"):
+        machine.succeed("incus image import ${vm-image-metadata}/*/*.tar.xz ${vm-image-disk}/nixos.qcow2 --alias nixos")
+
+    with subtest("virtual-machine can be launched and become available"):
+        machine.succeed("incus launch nixos ${instance-name} --vm --config limits.memory=512MB --config security.secureboot=false")
+        with machine.nested("Waiting for instance to start and be usable"):
+          retry(instance_is_up)
+
+    with subtest("lxd-agent is started"):
+        machine.succeed("incus exec ${instance-name} systemctl is-active lxd-agent")
+  '';
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/co/cowsql/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/co/cowsql/package.nix
index c7b7b97e9792..e0ce26609124 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/co/cowsql/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/co/cowsql/package.nix
@@ -39,9 +39,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   outputs = [ "dev" "out" ];
 
   passthru = {
-    tests = {
-      inherit incus;
-    };
+    inherit (incus) tests;
 
     updateScript = gitUpdater {
       rev-prefix = "v";
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/in/incus-unwrapped/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/in/incus-unwrapped/package.nix
index 051527357ca6..4c256481bfc3 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/in/incus-unwrapped/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/in/incus-unwrapped/package.nix
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 , udev
 , installShellFiles
 , nix-update-script
+, nixosTests
 }:
 
 buildGoModule rec {
@@ -79,6 +80,8 @@ buildGoModule rec {
   '';
 
   passthru = {
+    tests.incus = nixosTests.incus;
+
     updateScript = nix-update-script {
        extraArgs = [
         "-vr" "incus-\(.*\)"
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/in/incus/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/in/incus/package.nix
index 1eda9cf3ea72..e02876407a7b 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/in/incus/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/in/incus/package.nix
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 , rsync
 , spice-gtk
 , squashfsTools
+, util-linux
 , virtiofsd
 , xz
 }:
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@ let
     qemu-utils
     rsync
     squashfsTools
+    util-linux
     virtiofsd
     xz
 
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ra/raft-cowsql/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ra/raft-cowsql/package.nix
index 821abd91727c..a377f966241d 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ra/raft-cowsql/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ra/raft-cowsql/package.nix
@@ -41,9 +41,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   outputs = [ "dev" "out" ];
 
-  passthru.tests = {
-    inherit incus;
-    updateScript = gitUpdater { };
+  passthru = {
+    inherit (incus) tests;
+
+    updateScript = gitUpdater {
+      rev-prefix = "v";
+    };
   };
 
   meta = with lib; {