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Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno@openmailbox.org> skribis:

> You might want to make sure that the version of VirtualBox that you have
> is fully free/libre though.
>
> The current versions of it, as far as I know, aren't, so I think Guix
> should avoid recommending it.

Specifically, VirtualBox relies on a non-free toolchain at build time,
AIUI.  That=E2=80=99s why Guix does not include it.

Fox: QEMU should run about as fast as native code as long as you provide
the =E2=80=98-enable-kvm=E2=80=99 command-line option.  See
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Running-GuixSD-in-a-VM.=
html>.

HTH,
Ludo=E2=80=99.