From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Working with VMs Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 15:57:57 -0500 Message-ID: <20160109205757.GA31493@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51416) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aI0aB-0008Ej-NW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2016 15:57:56 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aI0a8-0003sN-HB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2016 15:57:55 -0500 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:59902) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aI0a8-0003s8-DP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2016 15:57:52 -0500 Received: from localhost (c-69-249-5-231.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [69.249.5.231]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id BE88BC016DA for ; Sat, 9 Jan 2016 15:57:51 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: guix-devel@gnu.org I've been trying to get started with Guix's virtual machine tools. As a person without much QEMU experience, I have some questions. I'd like to use `guix system vm-image`. Should I be using the scripts produced by `guix system vm` as an example of how to invoke QEMU to run the images produced by `vm-image`? Also, has anyone use `guix system vm` to spawn systems on demand? If so, did you do anything special to provide entropy to the system? On my machine, the boot process requires me to tap-dance on the keyboard...