From: Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: using guix in virtualbox
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 13:54:23 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1502101353140.23492@sandbox.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54D99226.50801@videotron.ca>
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015, westlake wrote:
> Hi, I've noticed that people have been using virtualbox with guix, but over
> here with 0.8.1 (64-linux), i'm noticing a bootup issue upon post-install
>
> The setup is informative enough from the guix install page, on top of which I
> create two empty .vdi disks, and can use qemu-nbd to transfer the raw image
> of the usb-install.
>
> It's actually pretty easy to set this up, and it took under 20 minutes.
> However after rebooting and then "unplugging" the installer drive from
> Virtualbox. The grub boot menu shows up, it appears the init starts but soon
> there is a freezing issue.
>
> Not sure what to do from this point, I understand more details would be
> needed to see why this is happening so I added an attachment.
>
> thanks
This is how I did it with 0.8
convertfromraw gnu-usb-install-version-linux-i686 gnu.vdi --format vdi
Attach it as a new SATA storage to new VB machine, enable PAE in
System/Processor tab, otherwise it may crash. Add another disk image to
install to and after a boot continue with install.
Adam Pribyl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-10 12:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-10 5:07 using guix in virtualbox westlake
2015-02-10 12:54 ` Adam Pribyl [this message]
2015-02-10 16:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
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