From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Allan Webber Subject: Re: Hosting a GuixSD server on commodity hosting platforms, a journey Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 10:52:18 -0600 Message-ID: <87lgvzzj5p.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <878ts212ic.fsf@dustycloud.org> <871sxt1sho.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87a8cg7weq.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60484) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCUau-0002Nd-B4 for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 11:52:25 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCUaq-0000bZ-Kq for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 11:52:24 -0500 Received: from dustycloud.org ([2600:3c02::f03c:91ff:feae:cb51]:54362) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCUaq-0000b8-Gc for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 11:52:20 -0500 In-reply-to: <87a8cg7weq.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Chris Marusich Cc: help-guix Chris Marusich writes: > Hi, > > Reading Chris' report, I was inspired to try the same thing on EC2. I > don't know much about Linode or Rackspace, but I do know EC2. I'm happy > to report that I was successfully in creating a GuixSD EC2 instance. > > Here's what I did. Essentially, all I wanted to do was run "guix system > init" on the root device of an EC2 instance. I accomplished that by > running "guix system init" on a loopback device (on my laptop), copying > the file which backed the loopback device onto an EC2 instance, writing > the file to an EBS volume attached to the instance, and then replacing > the EC2 instance's root EBS volume with the newly written EBS volume. Wow, great! Thank you for trying it, and documenting it :)