From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Jiang Subject: Re: VM image: can we simplify its use? Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 13:38:23 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87d0m1stsc.fsf@inria.fr> <20190409204810.GA26383@jasmine.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000008591300586316014" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:41718) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hEI7M-0001Gs-44 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Apr 2019 14:38:41 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hEI7K-0002Mt-Ve for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Apr 2019 14:38:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20190409204810.GA26383@jasmine.lan> 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 --0000000000008591300586316014 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 wrote: > On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 04:56:51PM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s 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 =E2= =80=94 > 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/ > --0000000000008591300586316014 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hello,

I think I can help! Missed the d= eadline 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 ca= n accomplish (though I might still need some guidance/pointers of where to = start).

Sincerely,
Daniel Jiang<= br>

On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 3:48 PM Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 04:56:51PM +020= 0, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s 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 =E2=80= =94
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" thin= g 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]
htt= ps://cloud-init.io/
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