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Subject: Re: Building Docker images of GuixSD
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Hi!

Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:

[...]

>> Or we mount the host store over 9p and exec a dynamically-linked Guile
>> from there.
>
> I understand hat by "9p" you mean to share the file system with the VM,
> but I don't quite understand what this option entails.  If the initrd
> doesn't use the right Guile, why will sharing the store via 9p work?  Do
> you mean to exec directly somehow, instead of using an initrd...?

9p support is in the kernel, so we can always mount a 9p file system,
provided the relevant 9p kernel modules are loaded.

HTH!

Ludo=E2=80=99.