On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 22:43:31 > From: Nate Bargmann <n...@n0nb.us> > To: guix-devel@gnu.org > 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 > > -- Ernesto Celis de la Fuente SDF Public Access UNIX System C*Net 1-333-1106 +1 206-299-2120 ext.1106 http://ecelis.sdf.org gopher://sdf.org/1/users/ecelis