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bug#22633: Provide a kvm-less qemu / guix system vm


From: Leo Famulari
Subject: bug#22633: Provide a kvm-less qemu / guix system vm
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 19:49:19 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30)

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 09:50:09AM +1100, Jookia wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 09:26:12AM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> > So on my Libreboot-enabled machine, KVM does not work.  In fact, even
> > starting qemu with KVM enabled on it appears to crash my whole system.
> > Not only does "guix system vm" not work, even "guix system vm-image" can
> > take the whole machine down!
> 
> Currently the 'solution' I've found is to edit Guix to remove the two 
> instances
> of '--enable-kvm' which works somewhat, though it's slower as there's 
> absolutely
> no acceleration.
> 
> > It would be nice to have a --no-kvm switch, because I'd really like to
> > make use of Guix's nice VM features!

It's not a proper fix, but this patch achieves that on my non-Libreboot
machine. Can you see if it works for you?

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