Re: GuixSD in virtualbox

[Ludovic Courtès]

Adonay Felipe Nogueira <address@hidden> skribis:

> You might want to make sure that the version of VirtualBox that you have
> is fully free/libre though.
>
> The current versions of it, as far as I know, aren't, so I think Guix
> should avoid recommending it.

Specifically, VirtualBox relies on a non-free toolchain at build time,
AIUI.  That’s why Guix does not include it.

Fox: QEMU should run about as fast as native code as long as you provide
the ‘-enable-kvm’ command-line option.  See
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Running-GuixSD-in-a-VM.html>.

HTH,
Ludo’.