From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent Legoll Subject: Re: Please put the system-configuration into the image Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 14:07:34 +0200 Message-ID: References: <2af008a3-ba55-1894-4cad-3afee197b225@crazy-compilers.com> <20170905180529.yk2kphegofhu7rft@abyayala> <1ee6f79c-a1b2-fe38-7cb2-e3ca4220985f@crazy-compilers.com> <87h8wezz9n.fsf@gnu.org> <9d3029d4-8069-4c95-702e-6194f7fa8cd2@crazy-compilers.com> <20170907124306.yy7seidv66ajlkka@abyayala> <8d2454ec-c878-0e30-fa06-5fd00f017560@crazy-compilers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38286) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqI4O-0003xP-AY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 08:07:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqI4N-0007AF-Jq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 08:07:36 -0400 Received: from mail-qt0-x22f.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::22f]:33135) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqI4N-0007A0-Fn for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 08:07:35 -0400 Received: by mail-qt0-x22f.google.com with SMTP id i50so5860269qtf.0 for ; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 05:07:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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: Julien Lepiller Cc: guix-devel On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Julien Lepiller wrote: > The qemu image however is meant to be copied directly to the virtual disk of > a VM, so it is not a live system, but your own system. I think it would be > better for the user to be able to access the configuration directly from the > VM and start from a known-good config before reconfiguring. It's not just a known good configuration that you want here, but the exact one that has been used to generate the image. > I now have a > running GuixSD VM and it was a pain to configure, because the interface to > the VM did not allow copy-pasting and had a strange plugin for interpreting > my keystrokes. Had I have this file on the VM, I could have modified only a > small portion of it and continue with ssh. But I had to copy the sample > config character by character and hope I did not do any mistake. Been there, done that too... -- Vincent Legoll