From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 'guix system vm' questions
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2016 15:06:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87poqwi3zn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <864m89f73e.fsf@gmail.com> (myglc2@gmail.com's message of "Fri, 01 Jul 2016 16:15:17 -0400")
myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com> skribis:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:10:35AM -0400, Thompson, David wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 2:57 AM, myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > I have a headless server running Guix/Debian 8.3 on which I would like
>>> > to run some guix vms. So far, I have a script (see mkvm.sh, attached)
>>> > that runs a single vm. It has some issues:
>>> >
>>> > 1) lsh-service hangs waiting for keystrokes on the QEMU console
>>>
>>> LSH needs to be initialized with a key on first boot, which is why you
>>> need to type to create entropy. This sucks for automation, so I would
>>> recommend OpenSSH instead, but we don't have an openssh-service yet.
>>
>> In your operating system configuration, you can pass 'initialize? #f' to
>> lsh-service to skip the SSH seed and host-key initialization. You will
>> need to initialize the LSH service later, before you can use it.
>
> I tried that and ... lsh spun looking for a seed file advising me to run
> 'lsh-make-seed', and then stopped.
Yeah this is expected: lshd won’t start if it cannot find a seed;
eventually, the Shepherd…
> Service SSH-daemeon has started.
> No seed file. Please create on by running
> lwh-make-seed -o "/var/spool/lsh/yarrow-seed-file".
> lshd: No rendomness generator available.
> Service ssh-daemon has been disabled.
> (Respawning too fast.)
… disables it.
> v1 login: root
> root@v1 ~# lsh-make-seed
> -bash: lsh-make-seed: command not found
I guess ‘lsh-service-type’ should be changed to extend
‘profile-service-type’ such that this command is available. WDYT?
Besides, we should add a service for OpenSSH’s sshd.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-02 13:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-29 6:57 'guix system vm' questions myglc2
2016-06-29 14:10 ` Thompson, David
2016-06-29 15:48 ` Leo Famulari
2016-07-01 20:15 ` myglc2
2016-07-02 13:06 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-07-03 13:47 ` myglc2
2016-07-11 19:32 ` Leo Famulari
2016-06-30 21:20 ` myglc2
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-06-29 18:23 David Craven
2016-06-30 13:10 ` David Craven
2016-07-03 13:53 ` myglc2
2016-07-03 16:09 David Craven
2016-07-06 16:17 ` myglc2
2016-07-07 16:26 David Craven
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