From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0 Subject: Re: GuixSD on commodity hosting platforms, hoster: IN-Berlin Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:10:12 +0000 Message-ID: <20170214101011.kv3ktokl426sfdun@wasp> References: <20170209183609.5rztohnqhsleifll@wasp> <20170213214717.GA11352@jasmine> <87o9y5unti.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56670) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cda2K-00072x-Hv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 05:08:41 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cda2G-0000el-Gq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 05:08:40 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87o9y5unti.fsf@gnu.org> 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" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On 17-02-14 10:24:57, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > Leo Famulari skribis: >=20 > > On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 06:36:09PM +0000, ng0 wrote: > >> today I had a short message exchange with the hoster "IN-Berlin"[0],= a > >> non-commercial group predating the widespread access of internet in > >> Germany. > >>=20 > >> It turns out that it could be as simple as providing them with the r= aw > >> disk image, so I will give it a try soon. > > > > A few months ago I had a brief discussion with a representative of > > about offering GuixSD there. > > > > They said that could accept a bootable ISO or qcow2 image. > > > > So, we could give them the 0.12.0 GuixSD installer image, after > > converting it to the qcow2 format. > > > > I used the following command to convert the installer to qcow2: > > > > $ xz -d guixsd-usb-install-0.12.0.x86_64-linux.xz \ > > && qemu-img convert -O qcow2 guixsd-usb-install-0.12.0.x86_64-linux \ > > guixsd-usb-install-0.12.0.x86_64-linux.qcow2 > > > > The results are available at > > . > > > > I'd like for someone to try this conversion themself and verify that = it > > creates the same qcow2 file. >=20 > The image itself is most likely not bit-reproducible, if that=E2=80=99s= what you > mean (non-reproducible packages, uncontrolled file system layout, etc.) >=20 > > If it does, then we can ask Serveraptor to make it available for test= ing > > on their platform. >=20 > That would be great! >=20 > For these use cases, I wonder if it makes sense to provide the > installation image. Wouldn=E2=80=99t it be more convenient if we provi= ded, say, > the =E2=80=9Cbare-bones=E2=80=9D image or a variant thereof? That way,= as a user, you > could directly use it as-is, or just run =E2=80=98reconfigure=E2=80=99 = in it. >=20 > Thanks, > Ludo=E2=80=99. >=20 I'd include an openssh aswell, but for IN-Berlin this is what I'll be using in March, a variant of the barebones image. I think in their special case even the installer would work, but with the bare-bones there's already "something". Maybe once it works I give "just the installer" a try on a second VM. --=20 ng0 -- https://www.inventati.org/patternsinthechaos/