Re: VM image: can we simplify its use?

[Daniel Jiang <jngdnl@gmail.com>]

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Hello,

I think I can help! Missed the deadline for GSoC application because of
school stuff but that shouldn't stop me from contributing to Guix. This
sounds like a task on a level I can accomplish (though I might still need
some guidance/pointers of where to start).

Sincerely,
Daniel Jiang

On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 3:48 PM Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 04:56:51PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > I had criticism about the VM image:
> [...]
> > Thoughts?
>
> Originally I added the VM image to address a specific use case at one VM
> hoster. I had hoped it would catch on more than it did and that the VM
> image would be improved to avoid these manual steps.
>
> In the meantime, people are using the VM image just to try out Guix —
> for example, in a local QEMU instance.
>
> It doesn't give a great impression, so let's change it.
>
> We should offer something like a "Live Guix" image for people to try the
> full Guix system without installing anything, and this should be more
> fully-featured than the current Guix VM image.
>
> Let's replace the current VM image with this "Live Guix" thing for the
> next release :) Should we adopt 'desktop.tmpl' for this?
>
> Eventually we should also offer a Guix system service that works like
> cloud-init [0] and can replace the manual work around networking,
> partitioning, etc. Help wanted!
>
> [0]
> https://cloud-init.io/
>

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