From: Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>
To: Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net>, Brian Woodcox <bw@inskydata.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: running GuixSD on a VM (was Re: Enjoying GuixSD)
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 14:09:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvkn4v70.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o9aygdbr.fsf@posteo.net>
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Ciao,
Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net> writes:
> Brian Woodcox writes:
>> P.S. If anyone feels energetic and has the time, it would be nice to
>> have a recipe to install the VirtualBox Guest Additions into GuixSD.
>> Then I can get copy and paste to work. :)
[...]
> Somebody may have to correct me on this, but I believe VirtualBox's
> Guest Additions have a freedom issue
yes, confirmed 100%: AFAIK VirtualBox Guest Additions are part of the
binary Extension Pack, distributed with the non-free VirtualBox Personal
Use and Evaluation License (PUEL) [1]
see Debian for details
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/virtualbox-guest-additions-iso
(guest additions is in the non-free section)
> so you will be unlikely to find a
> recipe to get it packaged for installation. I apologize on that front,
Oracle should apologize :-)
> however I do recommend you use QEMU instead if possible in KVM, that way
> you can use the fully free VirtIO bundle for acceleration and achieving
> full screen with proper resolution and so on.
confirmed: QEMU/KVM it the right solution for our VM needs
GuixSD manual have instructions for this:
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Installing-GuixSD-in-a-VM.html#Installing-GuixSD-in-a-VM
if users are not comfortable with CLI interfaces (e.g. virsh) to manage
virtualization, they can install virt-manager https://virt-manager.org/
and enjoy it's GUI and installation wizards
Ciao
Giovanni
[1] https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL
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Giovanni Biscuolo
Xelera IT Infrastructures
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-11 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-09 20:51 Enjoying GuixSD Brian Woodcox
2018-11-09 21:18 ` Brett Gilio
2018-11-11 2:09 ` Björn Höfling
2018-11-11 2:20 ` Brett Gilio
2018-11-11 13:09 ` Giovanni Biscuolo [this message]
2018-11-14 22:49 ` Brian Woodcox
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