Fwd: Re: VM image: can we simplify its use?

[Daniel Jiang <jngdnl@gmail.com>]

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> From: Daniel Jiang <jngdnl@gmail.com>
> Date: April 4, 2019 at 18:08:43 CDT
> To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: VM image: can we simplify its use?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> If this can refer to the qemu vm image available for download on the guix website. I've got some thoughts to chime in.
> 
> I think some scripts/info for walking through the setup could help a bunch if bundled in the image like how other distros do (thinking of Slackware or Ubuntu as an example). 
> 
> A script like the one for installing/setup of Guix could solve some of this well and can be as simple as downloading the image and prompting for resize.
> 
> I'll quickly add that instructions to login with 'root' would help too. As a beginner who tried the vm image I felt lost at the login prompt.
> 
> I like the idea of a larger qcow2 image as well since it's distributed compressed on: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/download/
>  
> Maybe different 'versions' can be made available or as options during a hypothetical setup that each include different packages/configuration s? Minimal, Desktop, Server, etc. (Thinking of Ubuntu and Slackware again)
> 
> Sincerely,
> Daniel Jiang
> 
>> On Apr 4, 2019, at 09:56, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Guix!
>> 
>> I had criticism about the VM image:
>> 
>>  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/system/examples/vm-image.tmpl
>> 
>> Namely that you have to manually set up networking, and then to manually
>> resize the image just to be able to run ‘guix pull’, is considered
>> inconvenient (rightly so).
>> 
>> Would it be an option to install connman or something in the image?
>> 
>> What about making the image bigger?  I would expect the QCOW2 file to be
>> small, if the disk is full of zero.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> Ludo’.
>> 

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