Re: How to boot GuixSD in LXD

2016-12-22 Thread David Braun 
On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 2:27 PM, David Craven david-at-craven.ch |Guix-box|
<7br2j1e...@sneakemail.com> wrote:

> That sounds like it could work. I believe what you are looking for is
> the boot script contained in a system derivation. If you used guix
> system init to create the LXD image, you can find it by running $(guix
> system build etc/config.scm)/boot.
>

Thank you for the tips; they were helpful.  I moved on from LXD to Docker
and I got it working.

David

Re: How to boot GuixSD in LXD

2016-12-22 Thread David Braun 
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 9:24 AM, ludo-at-gnu.org |Guix-box| <
2wkutze...@sneakemail.com> wrote:
>
> Scary, no?  :-)
>

Haha, yes!


> HTH!
>

Thank you, it did!

Best,
David

suggested edit to installation instructions

2016-12-18 Thread David Braun 
I followed the installation instructions here: https://www.gnu.org/software/
guix/manual/html_node/Preparing-for-Installation.html#Preparing-for-
Installation.

Compilation stopped in the middle because I hadn't allocated sufficient RAM.

I suggest adding the command 'swapon /dev/sda2' below 'mkswap /dev/sda2'.

Cheers,
David

How to boot GuixSD in LXD

2016-12-18 Thread David Braun 
Hi,

I just discovered GuixSD; it's very exciting!  I want to boot it as a
virtual machine in LXD (https://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/lxd).

So far I've created a LXD image by using the GuixSD installer to create a
bare bones file system.  Here's my etc/config.scm:

;; This is an operating system configuration template
;; for a "bare bones" setup, with no X11 display server.

(use-modules (gnu))
(use-service-modules networking ssh)
(use-package-modules admin)

(operating-system
  (host-name "GuixSD")
  (timezone "Etc/UTC")
  (locale "en_US.UTF-8")

  ;; Assuming /dev/sdX is the target hard disk, and "my-root" is
  ;; the label of the target root file system.
  (bootloader (grub-configuration (device "/dev/sda")))
  (file-systems (cons (file-system
(device "my-root")
(title 'label)
(mount-point "/")
(type "ext4"))
  %base-file-systems))

  ;; Add services to the baseline: a DHCP client and
  ;; an SSH server.
  (services (cons* (dhcp-client-service)
   (lsh-service #:port-number )
   %base-services)))

and my LXD metadata.yaml:

architecture: x86_64
creation_date: 1481846400
properties:
  description: GuixSD 0.11.0 bare bones x86_64
  os: GuixSD
  release: 0.11.0

Now when I attempt to launch the image, LXD fails when it tries to start
/sbin/init and can't find it.  I understand that GuixSD uses Shepherd
instead of init.  What's the best way for me to configure the image so that
LXD can start it?  Perhaps I should create a symlink at /sbin/init that
points to shepherd but I'm not sure if I should take the initrd into
account as well.

Thanks,
David