From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: GuixSD qcow2 image for GNOME Boxes? Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 01:42:09 -0500 Message-ID: <20160115064209.GA21805@jasmine> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44619) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJy5J-0003vC-40 for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 01:42:10 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJy5F-0004uu-Nu for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 01:42:09 -0500 Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:38673) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJy5F-0004uO-Jl for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 01:42:05 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Marc Dunivan Cc: "help-guix@gnu.org" On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:15:35PM -0500, Marc Dunivan wrote: > Help Guix: > > On http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/ there are a number of gnu-system-demo*.qcow2 images. However, the latest file was modified on 2014-04-09 and doesn't seem to open in GNOME Boxes. > > I am hoping to use GNOME Boxes to explore GuixSD without installing it on my PenguinWee. > > Are their instructions on how to create a GuixSD qcow2 image in the Guix webpages? Can one take the guix-usb-install-0.9.0.x86_64-linux.xz files and create an image that GNOME Boxes can use? If you simply want to try out GuixSD without installing to bare metal, there are a number of tools in `guix system` [0] that can do this for you, although I don't know about using them with GNOME Boxes. `guix system` can give you read-only and read-write QEMU images, raw disk images suitable for a USB flash drive, and it can also launch the system in a container. The disk-image tool is used to create the guix-usb-install-0.9.0.x86_64-linux.xz file [1]. In each case, you'll need an operating system configuration as introduced here: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Using-the-Configuration-System.html#Using-the-Configuration-System I hope that helps! [0] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-system.html [1] See section 7.1.5: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#System-Installation > > > Respectfully, > Marc