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From: Taylan Ulrich =?UTF-8?Q?Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1/Kammer?=
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Subject: bug#31887: Modules missing to boot on VMWare
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 22:58:54 +0200
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Although we don't want to support non-free software, perhaps it would
be nice to support booting Guix on VMWare without the user needing to
do anything extra.

While experimenting, I found out that if we just add the following
three Linux modules to the standard initrd, Guix can boot on VMWare
just fine: mptbase, mptscsih, mptspi

mptspi depends on mptscsih, and both depend on mptbase, so if
dependencies are handled automatically, declaring mptspi should be
enough.


Taylan

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<div dir=3D"ltr">Although we don&#39;t want to support non-free software, p=
erhaps it would<br>be nice to support booting Guix on VMWare without the us=
er needing to<br>do anything extra.<br><br>While experimenting, I found out=
 that if we just add the following<br>three Linux modules to the standard i=
nitrd, Guix can boot on VMWare<br>just fine: mptbase, mptscsih, mptspi<br><=
br>mptspi depends on mptscsih, and both depend on mptbase, so if<br>depende=
ncies are handled automatically, declaring mptspi should be<br>enough.<br><=
br><div><br></div><div>Taylan<br></div></div>

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