On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 5:49 AM Chris Marusich <cmmarus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Vincent Legoll <vincent.leg...@gmail.com> writes: > > Shouldn't it be put in the VM image at /etc/config.scm ? > > If you build the image from a very recent version of Guix's source, it > should be there, now (see below).
OK, thanks for the info, now that 1.0 is out, i'll retry with that one. > > I finally managed to get the image working, but had to > > guess a bit how to do it, I think the doc could be enhanced, > > so that newbies like me won't get lost. > > > > I tried to have a look at where is the source for : > > "6.2.14 Running GuixSD in a Virtual Machine" > > But the guix/doc/guix.texi text I found in the git repo > > looked different from what I read on the web site: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Running-GuixSD-in-a-VM.html > > > > Are they out of sync ? Or is the web manual rendered > > from an older version of that file ? > > The website is synced periodically. I think we keep the website synced > to the latest release, so that when you download the latest release, the > documentation you read on the website is precisely for the version of > Guix that you downloaded. If you update Guix later on, you should refer > to the documentation that gets installed in your OS, rather than the > website. You can access it with a Texinfo reader, for example by > invoking "info guix" on the command line or "C-h i" followed by "guix" > in Emacs. Again thanks, that's what I was thinking, but needed confirmation, I'll see if something is still missing from the latest vesion, and send a patch in that case. > It may not be exactly the same version that was used to build the > version available on the website, but you can find an up-to-date version > of the VM image's OS configuration at > './gnu/system/examples/vm-image.tmpl' in the Guix source: Perfect, thanks for all and congrats for the reached milestone ! -- Vincent Legoll