From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: VM image creation Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 13:16:29 +0100 Message-ID: <20150202121629.GA17207@debian.math.u-bordeaux1.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41733) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIFvw-0000aF-OU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 07:16:53 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIFvs-0007VF-P9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 07:16:52 -0500 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.13]:65398) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YIFvs-0007Uw-GE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 07:16:48 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello, when I run "guix system vm" on my machine (guix on debian), the following happens: The following derivations will be built: /gnu/store/pga62bq0nkgr1jk9j24mddf4amyqgrxc-run-vm.sh.drv /gnu/store/fsyd80k6z6gpfsscdsizj9sj63xbkxys-qemu-image.drv Formatting 'image.qcow2', fmt=qcow2 size=943718400 encryption=off cluster_size=65536 lazy_refcounts=off Could not access KVM kernel module: No such file or directory failed to initialize KVM: No such file or directory Backtrace: ... This is probably normal, as indeed I did not install the KVM kernel module, and I suppose I will need it for starting the virtual machine anyway. On the other hand, is there no way of creating the image using only tools that are provided by guix, without needing particular setups on the host machine? Andreas