From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mathieu Othacehe Subject: Re: Porting GuixSD to ARM article. Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 09:17:48 +0100 Message-ID: <87lggnhdqr.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87shc2c3fh.fsf@gmail.com> <20180122211500.GA2400@jurong> <87vaftgc7t.fsf@gmail.com> <20180123204646.GC2720@jurong> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39911) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eeGFo-0006Yj-PI for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2018 03:17:57 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eeGFj-0004MG-RK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2018 03:17:56 -0500 Received: from mail-wr0-x230.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c0c::230]:41775) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eeGFj-0004Ls-KQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2018 03:17:51 -0500 Received: by mail-wr0-x230.google.com with SMTP id v15so3184502wrb.8 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:17:51 -0800 (PST) In-reply-to: <20180123204646.GC2720@jurong> 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: Andreas Enge Cc: Guix-devel Hello, > I see, that is a very interesting observation! Is it documented anywhere? > A further naive question: How does it differ from a vm-image then? Well "vm-image" is pretty close to "disk-image". The difference is that "vm-image" output is meant to be run with qemu. However, there's no qemu machine emulating the BBB. So, producing a "vm-image" for BBB is not viable. If one day BBB is (unlikely) supported by qemu, then "vm-image" will allow you to test system configurations in a VM without the need of a BBB hardware. Mathieu