Hi Leo, Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis:
> Originally I added the VM image to address a specific use case at one VM > hoster. I had hoped it would catch on more than it did and that the VM > image would be improved to avoid these manual steps. > > In the meantime, people are using the VM image just to try out Guix — > for example, in a local QEMU instance. > > It doesn't give a great impression, so let's change it. Agreed. > We should offer something like a "Live Guix" image for people to try the > full Guix system without installing anything, and this should be more > fully-featured than the current Guix VM image. > > Let's replace the current VM image with this "Live Guix" thing for the > next release :) Should we adopt 'desktop.tmpl' for this? I think we could start from there. With GNOME, that’d be 2+ GiB probably, which is pretty big; otherwise we could come up with a lighter setup, say SLiM + Xfce (+ IceCat?). Thoughts? > Eventually we should also offer a Guix system service that works like > cloud-init [0] and can replace the manual work around networking, > partitioning, etc. Help wanted! It seems cloud-init is largely about running some sort of a YAMLish shell script that runs commands to obtain the desired state in terms of installed packages, system setup, and all that, right? To some extent that seems redundant with a typical OS declaration, no? Thanks for your feedback! Ludo’.
