From: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
To: myglc2@gmail.com
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guix package: error: build failed: opening lock file?
Date: Tue, 08 May 2018 23:10:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877eod1hqm.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bmewc15q.fsf@gmail.com
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Hi,
This is follow-up to a help-guix@gnu.org thread in which George asked if
it is expected that "guix system vm" mounts the store read-only in the
VM, and I replied explaining that it is expected:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2018-04/msg00049.html
I dug a little further and discovered behavior that seems undesirable to
me. If someone can confirm my understanding, I would be happy to try
drafting draft a patch to fix the problem.
Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:
> Currently, if you need a read-write store in a VM, the easiest solution
> is probably to use "guix system vm-image" or "guix system disk-image".
Curiously, if you invoke "guix system vm --full-boot", you will get a VM
that sees a read-write store. In virtualized-operating-system, it says:
;; XXX: When FULL-BOOT? is true, do not add a 9p mount for /gnu/store
;; since that would lead the bootloader config to look for the kernel and
;; initrd in it.
(file-systems (if full-boot?
virtual-file-systems
(cons
(file-system
(inherit (mapping->file-system %store-mapping))
(needed-for-boot? #t))
virtual-file-systems)))))
I don't understand this comment. I don't understand why we only map the
store into the VM when full-boot? is #f. When --full-boot is specified
on the command line (i.e., full-boot? is not #f), not only do we NOT map
the store into the VM, but we also copy the VM's dependencies into the
VM's disk image, so the disk image will contain a subset of the host's
store. In fact, because we copy the files over, the size of the disk
image produced by "guix system vm --full-boot" is about the same as that
produced by "guix system vm-image". I don't understand the point of
this; it seems to me like we could always unconditionally map the store
into the VM (without copying the dependencies required by the bootloader
config), regardless of whether --full-boot was specified, and the
bootloader would still successfully find its kernel and initrd.
Am I wrong? Does anyone understand why we map the store into the VM if
and only if full-boot? is #f?
--
Chris
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-09 6:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-05 19:43 guix package: error: build failed: opening lock file? myglc2
2018-04-06 6:13 ` Chris Marusich
2018-04-06 8:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-04-06 16:24 ` myglc2
2018-05-09 6:10 ` Chris Marusich [this message]
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