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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