From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?6Imvz5Y=?= Subject: Bad parameter to boot GuixSD in a VM Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2017 18:59:27 +0000 Message-ID: Reply-To: pierre@2bst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55903) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cxI3e-0003Ea-9p for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Apr 2017 14:59:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cxI3d-0004Yl-7c for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Apr 2017 14:59:30 -0400 Received: from mail-qk0-x232.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c09::232]:33700) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cxI3d-0004Yh-2w for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Apr 2017 14:59:29 -0400 Received: by mail-qk0-x232.google.com with SMTP id h67so94597573qke.0 for ; Sun, 09 Apr 2017 11:59:28 -0700 (PDT) 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" To: help-guix@gnu.org Hi, I've followed instructions on this page: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Installing-GuixSD-in-a-VM.html Howeverpoint 3 ("Boot the USB installation image in an VM: ") gets: qemu-system-x86_64: -net default: Invalid parameter 'default' If I remove that parameter I get another error: WARNING: Image format was not specified for 'guixsd-usb-install-0.12.0.x86_64-linux' and probing guessed raw. Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, write operations on block 0 will be restricted. Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions. Any ideas how I could solve that? Thanks in advance, piotr