From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: mray <mail@mray.de>
Cc: 40649@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40649: website download bug
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 22:51:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200529025109.GA28388@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20dfb0be-6d02-035d-eb21-467bcda0b117@mray.de>
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On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:36:11PM +0200, mray wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> the QEMU Image download links toa file that misses the "*.qcow2" filetype.
>
> That way Gnome Boxes is not able to start the image. I suggest renaming
> all respective files.
We could use something like the attached patch (untested!), but I'll
wait for review from a maintainer since they would have to deal with any
breakage.
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From a9bc503689e7d524265fd23811627323d8059ece Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 22:43:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] maint: Add a file extension to the VM image.
This allows the file to be opened easily in GNOME Boxes.
Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/40649>.
* Makefile.am (release): Add ".qcow2" to the name of the VM image.
* doc/guix.texi (Running Guix in a VM): Adjust accordingly.
---
Makefile.am | 6 +++---
doc/guix.texi | 2 +-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 5b64386b53..f1031863de 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -836,9 +836,9 @@ release: dist-with-updated-version
echo "failed to produced Guix VM image for $$system" >&2 ; \
exit 1 ; \
fi ; \
- xz < "$$image" > "$(releasedir)/$(GUIX_SYSTEM_VM_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.xz.tmp" ; \
- mv "$(releasedir)/$(GUIX_SYSTEM_VM_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.xz.tmp" \
- "$(releasedir)/$(GUIX_SYSTEM_VM_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.xz" ; \
+ xz < "$$image" > "$(releasedir)/$(GUIX_SYSTEM_VM_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.qcow2.xz.tmp" ; \
+ mv "$(releasedir)/$(GUIX_SYSTEM_VM_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.qcow2.xz.tmp" \
+ "$(releasedir)/$(GUIX_SYSTEM_VM_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.qcow2.xz" ; \
done
@echo
@echo "Congratulations! All the release files are now in $(releasedir)."
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 5b9942d420..0adadf69fa 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -27747,7 +27747,7 @@ Whether or not the droplet should be created with IPv6 networking.
@cindex virtual machine
To run Guix in a virtual machine (VM), one can use the pre-built Guix VM image
distributed at
-@url{@value{BASE-URL}/guix-system-vm-image-@value{VERSION}.x86_64-linux.xz}.
+@url{@value{BASE-URL}/guix-system-vm-image-@value{VERSION}.x86_64-linux.qcow2.xz}.
This image is a compressed image in QCOW format. You will first need to
decompress with @command{xz -d}, and then you can pass it to an emulator such
as QEMU (see below for details).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-29 2:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-15 20:36 bug#40649: website download bug mray
2020-05-29 2:38 ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-29 2:51 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2021-05-05 3:55 ` bug#40649: VM image file lacks ".qcow2" extension, which confuses GNOME Boxes Maxim Cournoyer
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