Gabriel Santos <[email protected]> writes: > Greetings, > > I'm trying to set up a repository[0] for Guix system configurations to > be used as virtual machines to better reproduce issues. This is > primarily made with non-Guix users in mind. > > I can build the image and start the virtual machine just fine, but the > virtual machine always boots with a small size, and it doesn't seem to > grow despite the size I start it with. > > I don't have a lot of experience with virtual machines (the most that I > did was just chucking some Linux ISOs into VirtualBox on Windows), so > I think the issue lies in that. > > (Screenshot showing that I have a "/dev/sda" device that's not being > used, and I have a bunch of partitions that have no filesystem: > <https://0x0.st/PimL.png>) > > [0] <https://github.com/gs-101/guix-vm> > > Regards, > > -- > Gabriel Santos
Hi Gabriel, I think you can increase the VM size with the --image-size option to “guix system vm”: >The ‘--image-size’ option can be used to specify the size of the image. Otherwise, you’d need to mount the generated image and change the partitions like you would on a real system.
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