Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> trying to do a "./pre-inst-env guix system reconfigure" using the recent
> git checkout 0ebc1b934d39b6c924cbe17fd37ceb2b201e9ac2 on my x86_64 virtual
> machine results in the following error:
>
> TEST: tests/qom-test... (pid=15434)
>   /mips64el/qom/boston:                                                qemu-system-mips64el: cannot set up guest memory 'boston.ddr': Cannot allocate memory
> Broken pipe
> FAIL


How much memory does this machine have?  Can you try to set up some swap
space?