bug#46242: Guix System is not listed in GNOME BOxes

bug#46242: Guix System is not listed in GNOME BOxes

[Maxime Devos]

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Hi guix!

Guix System is not listed in ‘Create a Virtual Machine’ in GNOME Boxes,
which is rather absurd when GNOME Boxes has been installed via Guix
and when using Guix System.

‘Someone’ should fix this (preferably upstream, such that more people
will know about Guix), this ‘someone’ not being me, as my personal
TODO list is long enough as is.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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bug#46242: Guix System is not listed in GNOME BOxes

[Julien Lepiller]

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I think gnome boxes uses libosinfo for proposing OSs. There is already some data about Guix at https://gitlab.com/libosinfo/osinfo-db/-/tree/master/data/os/guix.gnu.org

However, we only propose an xzipped iso (and not a raw iso file), so the data does not provide information on downloading. Either we have an outdated osinfo-db, or the lack of download option prevents boxes from showing it as a choice.

Le 1 février 2021 13:36:53 GMT-05:00, Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> a écrit :
>Hi guix!
>
>Guix System is not listed in ‘Create a Virtual Machine’ in GNOME Boxes,
>which is rather absurd when GNOME Boxes has been installed via Guix
>and when using Guix System.
>
>‘Someone’ should fix this (preferably upstream, such that more people
>will know about Guix), this ‘someone’ not being me, as my personal
>TODO list is long enough as is.
>
>Greetings,
>Maxime.

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bug#46242: Guix System is not listed in GNOME Boxes

[Mathieu Othacehe]

Hello,

> However, we only propose an xzipped iso (and not a raw iso file), so
> the data does not provide information on downloading. Either we have
> an outdated osinfo-db, or the lack of download option prevents boxes
> from showing it as a choice.

The reason for GNU Guix not showing up in GNOME Boxes appears to be that
the ISO9660 download URL is commented:

https://gitlab.com/libosinfo/osinfo-db/-/blob/master/data/os/guix.gnu.org/guix-1.1.xml.in#L15

I sent a new MR to add Guix 1.3.0 as well as Guix latest support here:

https://gitlab.com/libosinfo/osinfo-db/-/merge_requests/360/diffs?commit_id=e7c8f037e6967edce4076fcf85b1a5bc0a9e2247

Let's see what happens!

Thanks,

Mathieu

bug#46242: Guix System is not listed in GNOME Boxes

[Mathieu Othacehe]

Hey,

The following MR were accepted upstream:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-boxes/-/merge_requests/462
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-boxes-logos/-/merge_requests/12
https://gitlab.com/libosinfo/osinfo-db/-/merge_requests/360/diffs

I applied those patches on c-u-f with:

3466c055e66c2aa0dd8cbeb52a11701e1928a373
63c29950414b8f8a4553d38b9a902fec19491df0
aad44e9484cc5c7cef3bdae7e889b7013dfa7700

This means that we can now create Guix latest and Guix 1.3 virtual
machines in Gnome Boxes.

Closing this one,

Thanks,

Mathieu