Josh,

Josh Marshall 写道：
> Starting up the Qemu image off the website immediately results 
> in a kernel
> panic and can't run.  This should be fixed quickly.

I agree that any bugs should be promptly fixed.  However, I'm not 
yet convinced there's anything wrong with the image.  We'll need 
more information to help you.

The Qemu image on <https://guix.gnu.org/download/> hasn't been 
touched since May 2019 and still works for me today:

  λ curl -LI 
  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-vm-image-1.0.1.x86_64-linux.xz
  λ unxz guix-system-vm-image-1.0.1.x86_64-linux.xz
  λ qemu-system-x86_64 \
     -net user -net nic,model=virtio \
     -enable-kvm -m 512 \
     -device virtio-blk,drive=myhd \
     -drive 
     if=none,file=$PWD/guix-system-vm-image-1.0.1.x86_64-linux.xz,id=myhd
     # …and be greeted by a happy XFCE mouse.

How, exactly, are you trying to run it, and which error(s) do you 
get?

Kind regards,

T G-R