From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: GuixSD on commodity hosting platforms, hoster: IN-Berlin Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:24:57 +0100 Message-ID: <87o9y5unti.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20170209183609.5rztohnqhsleifll@wasp> <20170213214717.GA11352@jasmine> 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]:34759) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdZM7-0001wG-2H for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 04:25:07 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdZM3-0000x7-SZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 04:25:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20170213214717.GA11352@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Mon, 13 Feb 2017 16:47:17 -0500") 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: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Leo Famulari skribis: > 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 raw >> 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. The image itself is most likely not bit-reproducible, if that=E2=80=99s wha= t you mean (non-reproducible packages, uncontrolled file system layout, etc.) > If it does, then we can ask Serveraptor to make it available for testing > on their platform. That would be great! 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 provided,= 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 i= t. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.