Re: Offloading to a VM

[David Craven]

> I think we can leave this concern aside as a first approximation:

Ah interesting. The only architecture other than arm I'm interested in
is riscv. The riscv qemu port doesn't include a syscall emulation. But
I guess the riscv ecosystem still has a long way to go...

> A derivation is essentially the file name of a “builder” along with its
> argv and the needed dependencies.  For a given derivation, the hook
> would roughly run:

>   qemu-arm /gnu/store/…-builder arg1 arg2 …

> Hope this clarifies things!

Yes this does clarify things. Thanks!