Re: Please put the system-configuration into the image

[Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:
> The qemu image however is meant to be copied directly to the virtual disk of
> a VM, so it is not a live system, but your own system. I think it would be
> better for the user to be able to access the configuration directly from the
> VM and start from a known-good config before reconfiguring.

It's not just a known good configuration that you want here, but the exact one
that has been used to generate the image.

> I now have a
> running GuixSD VM and it was a pain to configure, because the interface to
> the VM did not allow copy-pasting and had a strange plugin for interpreting
> my keystrokes. Had I have this file on the VM, I could have modified only a
> small portion of it and continue with ssh. But I had to copy the sample
> config character by character and hope I did not do any mistake.

Been there, done that too...

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Vincent Legoll