From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ellen Papsch Subject: Re: Using the Hetzner Cloud Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 17:55:21 +0100 Message-ID: <31fbafeb5a408e361b65861dda17bd0c65cd5118.camel@wine-logistix.de> References: <57dc667e-5a69-45f7-e076-914d4691020c@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59818) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j3jgA-0003GR-9s for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:55:31 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j3jg8-0001d9-5k for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:55:29 -0500 Received: from dedi718.your-server.de ([78.46.1.118]:42174) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j3jg7-0001b1-Rk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:55:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: <57dc667e-5a69-45f7-e076-914d4691020c@web.de> 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-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Jonathan Brielmaier , Guix-devel Hi, Am Montag, den 17.02.2020, 14:47 +0100 schrieb Jonathan Brielmaier: > Hi folks, > > as promised on the Guix Days in Bruxelles I asked Hetzner[0] if they > could provide us some free VMs in their cloud[1]. > > A few days ago they came back go to me. Sadly they can't provide us > free > VMs, but they will give us 30 EUR credit for the first month. > > As they bill hour-wise and offer a serial console over HTTPS, you can > do > tests for stuff like the installer for 2 or 3 cents :) > > What do you think about it? > > ~Jonathan > a few days ago I requested the Guix installer from Hetzner as well. I gave them the ISO URL from Guix website. They mounted it without modification, which prevented boot due to the image being compressed. I had to supply the uncompressed image, which booted fine. The installer was not able to install right away. I could complete all the GUI steps. When it came to guix system init, it bailed with the message that an initrd-module may be missing. System init (and the subsequent boot) worked fine with: (initrd-modules (append (list "virtio_pci" "virtio_scsi") %base-initrd-modules)) BTW, the VGA console is very limited, you can't select text or send special key strokes, e.g. control keys. It suffices for activating SSH though :-) Hetzner added the image only for me, which is a hindrance for Guix adoption. Another limitation is that I can't create new servers right away without going through installation. I can dance around it by creating a snapshot of a template server and creating the new server from that snapshot, then reconfiguring the system (or doing a deploy, I want to try that yet). So, doing Guix is a little more inconvenient than a simple, plain Debian. I can still recommend it, though you may find Hetzner not meeting your demands in general: The cloud offerings have a rather low cpu/memory ratio (0.25 cpu/1G RAM) and it's not configurable. Best regards Ellen