From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: QEMU image boots into dmd Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:59:22 -0400 Message-ID: <877geaxdhh.fsf@tines.lan> References: <87vc1vay4o.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46825) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VNRT6-0007g3-DX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:59:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VNRT0-0002cw-JS for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:59:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87vc1vay4o.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Sat, 21 Sep 2013 01:09:43 +0200") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: > So (gnu system vm) and its friends are now able to build a bootable QEMU > image. That=E2=80=99s still *very* rough on the edges, but it boots into= dmd > (version -0.4 is out BTW, 10 years later ;-)). That's great news! :) (: :) > Once logged in you can run incredible things such > as =E2=80=98/nix/store/*dmd*/bin/deco detailed-status dmd=E2=80=99. I ran this command, and a strange thing happened: every character in the output was written twice, mostly (but not entirely) interleaved, as if two processes were writing the same output at the same time. > PS: The good news is that 90% of this work is directly reusable for a > =E2=80=9Creal=E2=80=9D system, and not specific to virtual images. Indeed; these are exciting times for Guix! Many thanks, Mark