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From: kevinbanjo <kevinbanjo@gmail.com>
To: kevinbanjo <kevinbanjo@gmail.com>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: converting a distro to guixsd
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 12:41:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOHcZqMbu80gz=_RTaFXcC6_-f_=DQm_ua7TE0F2YsnvU5B3qg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2gp3ssa.fsf@dismail.de>

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 6:28 AM Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de> wrote:

> kevinbanjo <kevinbanjo@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 7:42 PM Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
> wrote:
> <snip>
> > That's kind of in essence what WSL (at least version 2) is.
> Ahhh.  I didn't know that.
> Does qemu work on Linux?  You could install Guix System that way.
>

Well, that is one possibility but I just got docker working and apparently
there's a pretty automated way to convert a docker image to a wsl2 one so
I'm going to take a stab at that.

WSL2 seems to be a fair bit lighter weight than a full blown VM.   I guess
it's kind of a hybrid between a container and a VM.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/



> Ok.  Well best of luck!
>

Thanks,

If I don't get this soon, I guess I'm going to whip out the external hard
drive, save off all my important stuff, and go full Guix native then spin
up windows in VMs when I need it, but I have little doubt configuration of
some of these windows programs (which drive hardware) will probably be a
whole nother headache!

-Kevin

      reply	other threads:[~2021-01-19 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-17 18:38 converting a distro to guixsd kevinbanjo
2021-01-17 19:47 ` jbranso
     [not found]   ` <CAOHcZqO_xm4_YiGmgr1LvHozXA3UANnzTBUps8dyQ1_rK1M4Hw@mail.gmail.com>
2021-01-18  3:42     ` Joshua Branson
2021-01-18 17:47       ` kevinbanjo
2021-01-19 14:28         ` Joshua Branson
2021-01-19 20:41           ` kevinbanjo [this message]

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