Re: Trying to install Guix with Qemu

[Ernesto Celis]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, Nate Bargmann wrote:

> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 22:43:31
> From: Nate Bargmann <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Trying to install Guix with Qemu
> 
> I've just started playing with Guix and would like to do so using Qemu
> rather than bare metal.  As the GNU system is only available for Guix
> 0.7 as a USB drive image, this has posed a bit of a vexing problem to
> me.  I am a Qemu novice (I usually use Virtual Box) but I did get it to
> boot the USB image file and also was able to mount a created qcow2 disk
> image for it.  That is where I seem to have run aground.

I know this thread is about qemu, but as you said you are a VitrualBox
user, it may be interesting to you.

Last weekend I was able to install Guix 0.7 on virtualBox with the USB
image provided by Guix developers. I put my notes on gitorious.

https://gitorious.org/ecelis-guix/hackathon

Check the Changelog file for some problems.

> 
> It seems that Qemu when passed the -usb option makes that image /dev/sda
> and the image file I intend to install to must be given with the -hdb
> option.  When I edited /mnt/etc/config.scm I assumed the disk image
> would be /dev/sda but that seems to have resulted in at least Grub
> (maybe more packages) being installed into the USB image.  Clearly, this
> isn't what I want.  Do I specify /dev/sdb in config.scm and then just
> boot it as -hdb in the future?
> 
> I apologize if this is more of a Qemu question as I didn't see anything
> in the Qemu documentation that steered me toward reversing its drive
> assignments.  Hopefully, I'm not the only person interested in exploring
> the GNU system/Guix in a virtual machine, am I?
> 
> - Nate
> 
> 

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