Oops, forgot to add mailing list to reply. Begin forwarded message: > From: Daniel Jiang > Date: April 4, 2019 at 18:08:43 CDT > To: Ludovic Courtès > 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 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’. >>