From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: VM image: can we simplify its use? Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 16:56:51 +0200 Message-ID: <87d0m1stsc.fsf@inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50037) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hC3nT-00086i-3I for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2019 10:56:55 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46946) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hC3nS-0007LW-Tz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2019 10:56:55 -0400 Received: from [2001:660:6102:320:e120:2c8f:8909:cdfe] (port=59380 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hC3nR-0005mh-K4 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2019 10:56:54 -0400 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.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello Guix! I had criticism about the VM image: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/system/examples/vm-im= age.tmpl Namely that you have to manually set up networking, and then to manually resize the image just to be able to run =E2=80=98guix pull=E2=80=99, is con= sidered inconvenient (rightly so). Would it be an option to install connman or something in the image? What about making the image bigger? I would expect the QCOW2 file to be small, if the disk is full of zero. Thoughts? Ludo=E2=80=99.