Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Ludo,
>
>> IOW, a service that starts a GuixSD VM for another architecture.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks for this patch ! For now I'm still trying to build a GuixSD image
> directly on an armhf system.
>
> About that, i made some progress, but i'm now stuck on
> "load-in-linux-vm" part of system generation. This part is starting a
> qemu machine, inside the qemu machine i'm using for this dev. It takes
> about half an hour, just to boot !
>
> Does anyone know how could I speed this up, by buying or renting a
> powerful arm machine ? by skipping somehow load-in-linux-vm part ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mathieu

I may be totally out of context here, but I'll just mention that we
apparently have some procedures for running builders in "containers"
rather than a qemu virtual machine.  Perhaps you can avoid one of those
load-in-linux-vm calls by running something in a container instead.

Check out:

    guix/gnu/build/linux-container.scm
    guix/gnu/system/linux-container.scm

You might find something you can use.

-- 
Chris