Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Trying to build a VM I get a kernel panic.  Any idea why?
>
> Thanks,
> Myles
>
> guix system vm-image --image-size=1G --fallback pim-server.scm
>
> `/gnu/store/gh9pvc82l21g0hz5108wk2ggwv0a72yc-guile2.2-gnutls-3.5.9/bin/gnutls-serv' -> `/fs/gnu/store/gh9pvc82l21g0hz5108wk2ggwv0a72yc-guile2.2-gnutls-3.5.9/bin/gnutls-serv'
> `/gnu/store/gh9pvc82l21g0hz5108wk2ggwv0a72yc-guile2.2-gnutls-3.5.9/bin/psktool' -> `/fs/gnu/store/gh9pvc82l21g0hz5108wk2ggwv0a72yc-guile2.2-gnutls-3.5.9/bin/psktool'
> `/gnu/store/gh9pvc82l21g0hz5108wk2ggwv0a72yc-guile2.2-gnutls-3.5.9/bin/ocsptool' -> `/fs/gnu/store/gh9pvc82l21g0hz5108wk2ggwv0a72yc-guile2.2-gnutls-3.5.9/bin/ocsptool'
> ERROR: In procedure copy-file:
> ERROR: In procedure copy-file: Success
>
> Entering a new prompt.  Type `,bt' for a backtrace or `,q' to continue.
> [  236.784010] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000000

I've seen a similar failure when the disk image was too small to fit the
system declaration. Do you get the same error with a larger image size?