After a while, I'm attempting at creating a vm image, with this line (I had stored the comand line in a notes file) ~/GNU/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix system vm ~/configs/vm-config-desktop.scm --image-size=10GB --share=$HOME/transit=/transit These are the last lines I can see in the terminal ... [ 1.084823] 9p: Installing v9fs 9p2000 file system support [ 1.086036] FS-Cache: Netfs '9p' registered for caching configuring QEMU networking... [ 1.102362] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready loading '/gnu/store/rgpivnrpwr9mxadaxh2yq5g54ffnjkp9-linux-vm-loader'... [ 1.137673] random: fast init done environment variable `PATH' set to `/gnu/store/qbqzhwbl90kpmvz1r31rwl940n1cs33s' creating partition table with 2 partitions (20.0 MiB, 40.0 MiB)... [ 1.568159] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 2494.260 MHz [ 1.569060] clocksource: tsc: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x23f40b6s [ 2.080097] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready and it remains like this for several minutes Discouragaed, I interrupted it Is this expected ? Is anyone running into any similar glitch ? Thanks