Re: Build machine sysadmin support

[David Craven]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 7:38 PM, David Craven <address@hidden> wrote:
> So guix doesn't work inside a vm - because /gnu/store is mounted
> readonly. To be able to offload arm builds once guix system vm
> --system=armhf-linux works, /gnu/store needs to be writeable.
>
> Can multiple daemons concurrently use the same store?
>
> or alternatively, can we move the
>
> (unless (zero? (system* unionfs "-o"
>
> "cow,allow_other,use_ino,suid,dev,max_files=65536"
>                                 "/rw-root=RW:/real-root=RO"
>                                 "/root"))
>           (error "unionfs failed"))
>
> to after the 9p filesystems have been mounted, so that the unionfs
> allows writing to /gnu/store too?

I'd appreciate some ideas on how to best tackle this problem
(offloading builds to a guix system vm instance) =)