Re: Building arm64 guix system image

[Akira Kyle <akira@akirakyle.com>]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 10:29 AM, Max Brieiev 
<max.brieiev@gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to run Guix on Apple M1 as a Qemu virtual machine.

I think I may be one of the few (only?) guix users that has a 
setup like this. IIRC getting grub setup with qemu was the one 
trickier parts of this. Feel free to ping me directly if you're 
having trouble.

> On the Mac machine I run arm64 dedian image. I installed there 
> guix as a
> package manager. Now I am trying to create a guix system image 
> to use
> with Qemu, but it fails.

This is also how I got my guix system on qemu setup. For the 
record, I initially tried fedora but iirc, selinux was causing 
some difficulties.

> ...
> I don't know where to look to fix this error. Please, help me.

This is the relevant issue 
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/60719. Unfortunately until this is 
fixed, guix system won't build since grub-efi depends on 
qemu-minimial which in turn (recently) depends on 
openbios-qemu-ppc. Fortunately this can be worked around, and I 
posted how I'm working around this for now on that issue. Maybe 
this will also work for you.

> Also, I thought I could find somewhere arm64 guix build, but 
> apparently
> there is none?

It's been awhile since I've looked into the current status of 
building guix system installer images for aarch64 but this is the 
issue I have in my notes that was blocking this last time I looked 
into it: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/41120