From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?QmrDtnJuIEjDtmZsaW5n?= Subject: Re: [outreachy] am I in the right track to contribute Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 20:55:02 +0200 Message-ID: <20181011205502.2f2f433a@alma-ubu> References: <20181009181740.1f88bbf2@alma-ubu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/A2yKrbrOml9tSl2IQ03umJh"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35013) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAg76-000857-Kq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 14:55:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAg71-0008RR-3j for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 14:55:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: 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" To: Laura Lazzati Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de --Sig_/A2yKrbrOml9tSl2IQ03umJh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Laura, nice to here from your progress. On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:31:26 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > Luckily yesterday I ended up late at night and found that I could > import my VM with Ubuntu guest with guix running. I do have a > question. I use Virtualbox, and Downloaded the .iso file of GuixSD, I > have just installed the VM for GuixSD in VirtualBox - I read that in > the documentation it is mentioned to use quemu- but strangely I > managed to install it without any problems in VirtualBox with the .iso I have a Windows-PC with VirtualBox where GuixSD is running stable since at least half a year.=20 I think the recommendation with QEMU is more about freedom: As far as I know there are some issues with software-freedom. The only reference I found is some older Trisquel discussion claiming some compiler is only open source, but not nonfree: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/virtualbox-non-free-software Has anyone else a clearer picture about that? Bj=C3=B6rn --Sig_/A2yKrbrOml9tSl2IQ03umJh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlu/nIYACgkQvyhstlk+X/202ACguPTaBK+P8MsaC4fifyCDHhik cOwAoJaPSExMhkqtgThf7khS27My4JdY =YxWE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/A2yKrbrOml9tSl2IQ03umJh--