Hi Ludo' , it works on my laptop (I'm trying on commit 0d4af3c55c7fd75f03a0b6ecc059720657268ff3 ), so I believe it is just a matter of increasing timeouts, I'm creating a new patch to increase them GC Warning: pthread_getattr_np or pthread_attr_getstack failed for main thread GC Warning: Could not open /proc/stat Welcome, this is GNU's early boot Guile. Use 'gnu.repl' for an initrd REPL. loading kernel modules... Guix_image: clean, 74861/192000 files, 529473/768000 blocks loading '/gnu/store/88p4hfc4bb3vgbdl5wbzp32iz5paddk5-system/boot'... making '/gnu/store/88p4hfc4bb3vgbdl5wbzp32iz5paddk5-system' the current system... populating /etc from /gnu/store/xzdyagi33ab00lzcanr9day1pym4s116-etc... setting up privileged programs in '/run/privileged/bin'... Please wait while gathering entropy to generate the key pair; this may take time... creating /etc/machine-id... [    9.126087] udevd[96]: specified group 'sgx' unknown [    9.513326] udevd[96]: no sender credentials received, message ignored [   11.933576] Error: Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting... Dec 29 22:54:06 localhost vmunix: [    9.126087] udevd[96]: specified group 'sgx' unknown Dec 29 22:54:06 localhost vmunix: [    9.513326] udevd[96]: no sender credentials received, message ignored Dec 29 22:54:06 localhost vmunix: [   11.933576] Error: Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting... This is the GNU system.  Welcome. komputilo login: Getting image source signatures Copying blob 2e9a3fc88c27 done   | Copying config 6143ce0196 done   | Writing manifest to image destination ;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0 ;;;       or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable. ;;; compiling /aa.scm ;;; compiled /.cache/guile/ccache/3.0-LE-8-4.6/gnu/store/94fibvjivrc2phgm90kc6ka3jjysgg6h-guest-script-0/a.scm.go shepherd: Starting service cgroups2-fs-owner... shepherd: Service cgroups2-fs-owner started. shepherd: Service cgroups2-fs-owner running with value #< id: 180 command: ("/gnu/store/89mgs6sgfgd7vhcb8w7j6fsz6vpwp4. shepherd: Service user-homes has been started. shepherd: Service rootless-podman-shared-root-fs has been started. shepherd: Service cgroups2-limits has been started. shepherd: Starting service cgroups2-fs-owner... shepherd: Service cgroups2-fs-owner has been started. QEMU runs as PID 18 connected to QEMU's monitor read QEMU monitor prompt connected to guest REPL %%%% Starting test rootless-podman  (Writing full log to "/gnu/store/6ga9q0nwl3ccwpkba73rmls41vg86b20-rootless-podman-test/root) marionette is ready PASS: service started PASS: /sys/fs/cgroup/cgroup.subtree_control content is sound PASS: /sys/fs/cgroup has correct permissions PASS: Load oci image and run it (unprivileged) # of expected passes      4 successfully built /gnu/store/3h3xhr7wdnd8w79bfarqfhjfwgzd91ad-rootless-podman-test.drv /gnu/store/6ga9q0nwl3ccwpkba73rmls41vg86b20-rootless-podman-test Thank you for bringing this up, cheers giacomo