On 01/14/2018 at 19:51 Hartmut Goebel writes: > I wonder about the best-practice for managing VMs built using `guix > system vm`.
I doubt this is best practice, but I have been using a bash script to build, commission, and route VMs on a GuixSD server. Because I want self-contained, portable, stateful VMs that can also run elsewhere, I use 'guix system vm-image'. I keep track of the VM config by caching the config file and 'guix --version' w/the image, which must be copied out of the store in order to run (and is therefore not affected by 'guix gc'). I keep track of what's running and avoid colisions by forcing a 1-to-1 mapping between the image file name, VM name, TUN/TAP device name, and MAC address. HTH - George
