From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Brielmaier Subject: Re: Using the Hetzner Cloud Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 18:35:21 +0100 Message-ID: References: <57dc667e-5a69-45f7-e076-914d4691020c@web.de> <31fbafeb5a408e361b65861dda17bd0c65cd5118.camel@wine-logistix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54593) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j46mV-00059V-1v for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:35:36 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j46mT-0003rN-T1 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:35:34 -0500 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.12]:39741) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j46mT-0003qL-GH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:35:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: <31fbafeb5a408e361b65861dda17bd0c65cd5118.camel@wine-logistix.de> Content-Language: en-US List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ellen Papsch , Guix-devel On 17.02.20 17:55, Ellen Papsch wrote:> a few days ago I requested the Guix installer from Hetzner as well. I > gave them the ISO URL from Guix website. They mounted it without > modification, which prevented boot due to the image being compressed. I > had to supply the uncompressed image, which booted fine. > > The installer was not able to install right away. I could complete all > the GUI steps. When it came to guix system init, it bailed with the > message that an initrd-module may be missing. System init (and the > subsequent boot) worked fine with: > > (initrd-modules (append (list "virtio_pci" > "virtio_scsi") > %base-initrd-modules)) AFAIK it's fixed in Guix master. But 1.0.1 is missing the patch. It's time for new release :) > BTW, the VGA console is very limited, you can't select text or send > special key strokes, e.g. control keys. It suffices for activating SSH > though :-) The console is limited but was always good enough for my use cases :) > Hetzner added the image only for me, which is a hindrance for Guix > adoption. Another limitation is that I can't create new servers right > away without going through installation. I can dance around it by > creating a snapshot of a template server and creating the new server > from that snapshot, then reconfiguring the system (or doing a deploy, I > want to try that yet). > > So, doing Guix is a little more inconvenient than a simple, plain > Debian. I can still recommend it, though you may find Hetzner not > meeting your demands in general: The cloud offerings have a rather low > cpu/memory ratio (0.25 cpu/1G RAM) and it's not configurable. Going through the installer all the time if you have more servers is annoying. But for smaller setups with one or two servers pretty okay.