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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno@openmailbox.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GuixSD in virtualbox
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 13:23:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vaoxf5tn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871srmat5e.fsf@openmailbox.org> (Adonay Felipe Nogueira's message of "Thu, 18 May 2017 15:58:53 -0300")

Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno@openmailbox.org> skribis:

> You might want to make sure that the version of VirtualBox that you have
> is fully free/libre though.
>
> The current versions of it, as far as I know, aren't, so I think Guix
> should avoid recommending it.

Specifically, VirtualBox relies on a non-free toolchain at build time,
AIUI.  That’s why Guix does not include it.

Fox: QEMU should run about as fast as native code as long as you provide
the ‘-enable-kvm’ command-line option.  See
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Running-GuixSD-in-a-VM.html>.

HTH,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-19 11:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-17 22:42 GuixSD in a VM is so nice - once you actually have control over your mouse, that is Fox
2017-05-17 22:52 ` Fox
2017-05-18  2:30 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-05-18  9:34   ` GuixSD in a VM is so nice Fox
2017-05-18 11:28     ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-05-18 11:46       ` Fox
2017-05-18 12:01         ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-05-18 12:18           ` Fox
2017-05-18 12:30             ` Fox
2017-05-18 13:51               ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-05-18 17:22             ` GuixSD in virtualbox Fox
2017-05-18 18:58               ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-05-19 11:23                 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-05-19 13:52                   ` Fox
2017-05-19 16:51                     ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-05-19 17:43                       ` Fox
2017-05-19  8:39 ` GuixSD in a VM is so nice - once you actually have control over your mouse, that is Björn Höfling

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