Re: using guix in virtualbox

[Ludovic Courtès]

westlake <address@hidden> skribis:

> The setup is informative enough from the guix install page, on top of
> which I create two empty .vdi disks, and can use qemu-nbd to transfer
> the raw image of the usb-install.
>
> It's actually pretty easy to set this up, and it took under 20
> minutes. However after rebooting and then "unplugging" the installer
> drive from Virtualbox. The grub boot menu shows up, it appears the
> init starts but soon there is a freezing issue.

It seems to be failing very early, but I’m not sure where.

It may be that the initrd is lacking a driver for the virtual disk drive
that you are using.  Do you know what drivers are needed for these?

Assuming the virtio drivers are needed, you might need to amend the OS
configuration along the following lines, and to redo the installation
with that configuration:

  (operating-system
    ;; ...
    (initrd (lambda (file-systems . rest)
              ;; Ask for an initrd that contains the virtio drivers.
              (apply base-initrd file-systems
                     #:virtio? #t
                     rest)))
    ;; rest of the config...
    )

Thanks,
Ludo’.