GuixSD on servers [Fwd: [rtracker.1984.is #131647] A question about VServer system specific requirements]

[ng0]

Hi, a short update on the multiple providers I'm talking with at the moment.
This just in after the holidays from 1984 ehf, iceland.

All in all not problematic, and they'd even add GuixSD to the list of available 
isos
once there is an iso.

So, what's the status on the ISO, who's working on it?

----- Forwarded message from Siggi via RT <address@hidden> -----

> Hi,
> 
> The IP is completely static and needs to be set, agetty is not a requirement 
> to use the out of band access.  We run kvm - qemu, and you do not need 
> non-free software for the guest nor the host to run it successfully.  If you 
> have an iso I would happily add it to the list of isos available to use.  If 
> or when you are ready I can also dd an image to your VPS setup with us, if 
> you like.
> 
> Best
> 
> Siggi
> 
> 
> On Thu Apr 13 16:32:33 2017, address@hidden wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > at Guix/GuixSD (https://gnu.org/s/guix) we are currently looking into
> > all the special requirements of virtual server platforms, testing them
> > out to make the little tweaks that must be applied unnecessary later on,
> > improving GuixSD that way.
> > 
> > This month I won't have the money to spawn a server at 1984hosting, but I'm
> > interested in details in advance (and potentially I want to host a part
> > of the infrastructure for my collective (https://pragmatique.xyz) there).
> > 
> > The usual cases for digitalocean (and linode) looks like this:
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-04/msg00139.html
> > and for IN-Berlin (a non-profit in Germany) I'm still waiting for some
> > GRUB changes to be merged into our sources (to communicate with the
> > out-of-band console server (agetty redirection)).
> > Furthermore there are cases where you can simply be lucky and
> > "assimilate" the mimimal host system into GuixSD:
> > https://n0is.noblogs.org/post/2017/04/11/installing-guixsd-the-borg-way/
> > 
> > GuixSD is currently just distributed as an raw image, but we're working
> > on making it accessible as an .iso with dual efi+legacy bios support.
> > 
> > Potential issues I'm interested in are: is agetty an requirement for
> > the "out of band" console,
> > do you run an dhcpd or is the IP completely
> > static and details need to be specified (we have services and
> > configuration tools for both cases),
> > do the virtual servers require any special drivers for hardware (which
> > would typically be found in 'non-free' apt source of debian for example),
> > and anything you can point out which would help to clear up the
> > situation in advance.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks!
> 
> 
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