From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent Legoll Subject: Re: QEmu image configuration Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 12:34:48 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87d0l4ywy6.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50992) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMVX0-0004Ej-Db for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 May 2019 06:35:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMVWz-0001Oh-C0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 May 2019 06:35:06 -0400 Received: from mail-it1-x12b.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::12b]:40570) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMVWx-0001EX-UB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 May 2019 06:35:04 -0400 Received: by mail-it1-x12b.google.com with SMTP id k64so8266444itb.5 for ; Fri, 03 May 2019 03:35:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87d0l4ywy6.fsf@gmail.com> 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: Chris Marusich Cc: guix-devel On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 5:49 AM Chris Marusich wrote: > Vincent Legoll writes: > > Shouldn't it be put in the VM image at /etc/config.scm ? > > If you build the image from a very recent version of Guix's source, it > should be there, now (see below). OK, thanks for the info, now that 1.0 is out, i'll retry with that one. > > I finally managed to get the image working, but had to > > guess a bit how to do it, I think the doc could be enhanced, > > so that newbies like me won't get lost. > > > > I tried to have a look at where is the source for : > > "6.2.14 Running GuixSD in a Virtual Machine" > > But the guix/doc/guix.texi text I found in the git repo > > looked different from what I read on the web site: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Running-GuixSD-in-a-VM.html > > > > Are they out of sync ? Or is the web manual rendered > > from an older version of that file ? > > The website is synced periodically. I think we keep the website synced > to the latest release, so that when you download the latest release, the > documentation you read on the website is precisely for the version of > Guix that you downloaded. If you update Guix later on, you should refer > to the documentation that gets installed in your OS, rather than the > website. You can access it with a Texinfo reader, for example by > invoking "info guix" on the command line or "C-h i" followed by "guix" > in Emacs. Again thanks, that's what I was thinking, but needed confirmation, I'll see if something is still missing from the latest vesion, and send a patch in that case. > It may not be exactly the same version that was used to build the > version available on the website, but you can find an up-to-date version > of the VM image's OS configuration at > './gnu/system/examples/vm-image.tmpl' in the Guix source: Perfect, thanks for all and congrats for the reached milestone ! -- Vincent Legoll