From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [v2 1/1] doc: Show how to boot result of 'vm-image'.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 11:08:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87powovek6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d44a6eacbc3a4be6b05d81e7551257c0c94599e9.1453670519.git.leo@famulari.name> (Leo Famulari's message of "Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:22:55 -0500")
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> * doc/guix.texi (Running GuixSD in a VM): New node.
> (Invoking guix system): Add reference to 'Running GuixSD in a VM'.
[...]
> +@node Running GuixSD in a VM
> +@subsection Running GuixSD in a VM
s/VM/virtual machine/ on the second line.
> +One way to run GuixSD in a virtual machine is to build a GuixSD virtual
After “virtual machine”, add “(VM)” to introduce the acronym.
> +machine image using @command{guix system vm-image} (@pxref{Invoking guix
> +system}). The returned image is in qcow2 format, which the
^^
Please make sure that all the end-of-sentence periods are followed by
two spaces or a newline (info "(texinfo) Not Ending a Sentence").
> +$ qemu-system-x86_64 \
> +-net user -net nic,model=virtio \
> +-enable-kvm -m 256 /tmp/qemu-image
Would be nice to align the 2nd and 3rd line below the ‘e’ of ‘qemu’.
> +And the annotated version:
Maybe “Here is what each of these options means:”.
> +x86_64, you can get a list of available NIC models by running
> +`qemu-system-x86_64 -net nic,model=help`.
Instead of backquotes, use @command{…}.
> +@item -enable-kvm
> +If your system has hardware virtualization extensions, enabling the
> +kernel virtual machine will make things run faster.
s/kernel virtual machine/Linux kernel's virtual machine support (KVM)/
> +@item -m 256
> +RAM available to the guest OS, in megabytes. Defaults to 128 megabytes,
> +which is not enough for the Guix daemon.
“Defaults to 128@tie{}MiB, which may be insufficient for some
operations.” (It’s not the daemon specifically, it’s mostly if you want
to run X + Xfce, for instance. The former ‘guix substitute’ used to
take quite a lot of memory, but I think that’s no longer the case since
we switched to HTTP pipelining.)
> +@item /tmp/qemu-image
> +The filesystem path of the qcow2 image.
s/filesystem path/file name/
OK with these changes, thanks a lot!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-26 10:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-24 21:22 [v2 0/1] Revised QEMU instructions for manual Leo Famulari
2016-01-24 21:22 ` [v2 1/1] doc: Show how to boot result of 'vm-image' Leo Famulari
2016-01-26 10:08 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-01-26 19:42 ` Leo Famulari
2016-01-26 21:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
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