Finally installed GuixSD 0.15.0 into a VM on Mac OSX

Finally installed GuixSD 0.15.0 into a VM on Mac OSX

[Brian Woodcox]

So it finally happened after a few days of trying and the excellent help here.  Thanks to all.

I have a VirtualBox VM running on Mac OSX High Sierra.

Took a few days to compile everything from sources using --substitute-urls="https://berlin.guixsd.org”.  Don’t do this unless you are very patient.

There were a few problems along the way.

I think my initial problem was I was using the hydra site initially just before it went down.  Somewhere along the way I did a guix pull, etc and I couldn’t install guile-2.2.3 and guile-2.2.4.  So I decided to abort the whole thing and setup a new VM.

While installing the new VM, I found some issues with the install scripts:

bzip2 —> The correct fix from Leo was to download the file as follows—> guix download https://web.archive.org/web/20180624184835/http://www.bzip.org/1.0.6/bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz

texlive-20170524 —> From Mark, I downloaded from —> ftp://tug.org/texlive/historic/2017/texlive-20170524-extra.tar.xz

nss-3.36.1 —> So I received an answer on this, but no definitive solution.  Sorry, I had to edit the builder script and remove the tests to get this to install.  I guess I will install this properly later when it gets fixed.

guix-artwork-6998d30 —> So I have no idea how to download this file.  Instead, I (sorry Mark) edit the rsgj5syf4azvg4y80gqbr94gr4i9226y-guix-artwork-6998d30-checkout.drv file and changed it to https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix/guix-artwork.git

I know your not supposed to edit these, but had I not, I would be waiting for a while.  When these are fixed, I will install them properly.

I guess I was the guinea pig to show that there are some issues with the install that need to be addressed.

Thanks everyone.  Now I can play with the fresh OS.

Brian. :)

Re: Finally installed GuixSD 0.15.0 into a VM on Mac OSX

[swedebugia]

Hi

On 2018-11-04 17:04, Brian Woodcox wrote:
> So it finally happened after a few days of trying and the excellent help here.  Thanks to all.
>
> I have a VirtualBox VM running on Mac OSX High Sierra.
Congratulations!

I just succeded installing, resizing & guix pulling via the 0.15 binary 
VM image. (total time took some hours from commit=v0.15 from berlin)

Most of the time was used to figure out how to resize the qcow2-image 
and configure qemu. You gotta love free software! <3

Will post guide or blog post when I am satisfied (SSH into to the guest 
does not work yet for some reason).

>
> Took a few days to compile everything from sources using --substitute-urls="https://berlin.guixsd.org”.  Don’t do this unless you are very patient.
Berlin had all needed substitutes for my bare-bones.tmpl ->config.scm.
> While installing the new VM, I found some issues with the install scripts:
>
> bzip2 —> The correct fix from Leo was to download the file as follows—> guix download https://web.archive.org/web/20180624184835/http://www.bzip.org/1.0.6/bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz
I never ran into this as I am running 0.15, NOT vanilla.
>
> texlive-20170524 —> From Mark, I downloaded from —> ftp://tug.org/texlive/historic/2017/texlive-20170524-extra.tar.xz
>
> nss-3.36.1 —> So I received an answer on this, but no definitive solution.  Sorry, I had to edit the builder script and remove the tests to get this to install.  I guess I will install this properly later when it gets fixed.
You could create your own custom package.
>
> guix-artwork-6998d30 —> So I have no idea how to download this file.  Instead, I (sorry Mark) edit the rsgj5syf4azvg4y80gqbr94gr4i9226y-guix-artwork-6998d30-checkout.drv file and changed it to https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix/guix-artwork.git
You could create your own custom package.
>
> I know your not supposed to edit these, but had I not, I would be waiting for a while.  When these are fixed, I will install them properly.
>
> I guess I was the guinea pig to show that there are some issues with the install that need to be addressed.
Aren't we all. Now you know what BETA feels like :D
>
> Thanks everyone.  Now I can play with the fresh OS.

Happy hacking!

Would you be willing to post a screenshot?

-- 
Cheers
Swedebugia

Re: Finally installed GuixSD 0.15.0 into a VM on Mac OSX

[Brian Woodcox]

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Hi Swedebugia,

Here is a screenshot as requested.


> On Nov 4, 2018, at 12:27 PM, swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> On 2018-11-04 17:04, Brian Woodcox wrote:
>> So it finally happened after a few days of trying and the excellent help here.  Thanks to all.
>> 
>> I have a VirtualBox VM running on Mac OSX High Sierra.
> Congratulations!
> 
> I just succeded installing, resizing & guix pulling via the 0.15 binary VM image. (total time took some hours from commit=v0.15 from berlin)
> 
> Most of the time was used to figure out how to resize the qcow2-image and configure qemu. You gotta love free software! <3
> 
> Will post guide or blog post when I am satisfied (SSH into to the guest does not work yet for some reason).
> 
>> 
>> Took a few days to compile everything from sources using --substitute-urls="https://berlin.guixsd.org”.  Don’t do this unless you are very patient.
> Berlin had all needed substitutes for my bare-bones.tmpl ->config.scm.
>> While installing the new VM, I found some issues with the install scripts:
>> 
>> bzip2 —> The correct fix from Leo was to download the file as follows—> guix download https://web.archive.org/web/20180624184835/http://www.bzip.org/1.0.6/bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz
> I never ran into this as I am running 0.15, NOT vanilla.
>> 
>> texlive-20170524 —> From Mark, I downloaded from —> ftp://tug.org/texlive/historic/2017/texlive-20170524-extra.tar.xz
>> 
>> nss-3.36.1 —> So I received an answer on this, but no definitive solution.  Sorry, I had to edit the builder script and remove the tests to get this to install.  I guess I will install this properly later when it gets fixed.
> You could create your own custom package.
>> 
>> guix-artwork-6998d30 —> So I have no idea how to download this file.  Instead, I (sorry Mark) edit the rsgj5syf4azvg4y80gqbr94gr4i9226y-guix-artwork-6998d30-checkout.drv file and changed it to https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix/guix-artwork.git
> You could create your own custom package.
>> 
>> I know your not supposed to edit these, but had I not, I would be waiting for a while.  When these are fixed, I will install them properly.
>> 
>> I guess I was the guinea pig to show that there are some issues with the install that need to be addressed.
> Aren't we all. Now you know what BETA feels like :D
>> 
>> Thanks everyone.  Now I can play with the fresh OS.
> 
> Happy hacking!
> 
> Would you be willing to post a screenshot?
> 
> -- 
> Cheers
> Swedebugia
> 


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