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website download bug |
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Wed, 15 Apr 2020 22:36:11 +0200 |
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Hi there,
the QEMU Image download links toa file that misses the "*.qcow2" filetype.
That way Gnome Boxes is not able to start the image. I suggest renaming
all respective files.
Thanks for noting :)
-Robert Martinez
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Re: bug#40649: VM image file lacks ".qcow2" extension, which confuses GNOME Boxes |
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Tue, 04 May 2021 23:55:00 -0400 |
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Hi!
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:36:11PM +0200, mray wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> the QEMU Image download links toa file that misses the "*.qcow2" filetype.
>>
>> That way Gnome Boxes is not able to start the image. I suggest renaming
>> all respective files.
>
> We could use something like the attached patch (untested!), but I'll
> wait for review from a maintainer since they would have to deal with any
> breakage.
>
> From a9bc503689e7d524265fd23811627323d8059ece Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
> Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 22:43:16 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] maint: Add a file extension to the VM image.
>
> This allows the file to be opened easily in GNOME Boxes.
>
> Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/40649>.
>
> * Makefile.am (release): Add ".qcow2" to the name of the VM image.
> * doc/guix.texi (Running Guix in a VM): Adjust accordingly.
> ---
> Makefile.am | 6 +++---
> doc/guix.texi | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
> index 5b64386b53..f1031863de 100644
> --- a/Makefile.am
> +++ b/Makefile.am
> @@ -836,9 +836,9 @@ release: dist-with-updated-version
> echo "failed to produced Guix VM image for $$system" >&2 ;
> \
> exit 1 ;
> \
> fi ;
> \
> - xz < "$$image" >
> "$(releasedir)/$(GUIX_SYSTEM_VM_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.xz.tmp" ; \
> - mv "$(releasedir)/$(GUIX_SYSTEM_VM_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.xz.tmp"
> \
> - "$(releasedir)/$(GUIX_SYSTEM_VM_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.xz" ;
> \
> + xz < "$$image" >
> "$(releasedir)/$(GUIX_SYSTEM_VM_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.qcow2.xz.tmp" ; \
> + mv "$(releasedir)/$(GUIX_SYSTEM_VM_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.qcow2.xz.tmp"
> \
> + "$(releasedir)/$(GUIX_SYSTEM_VM_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.qcow2.xz" ;
> \
> done
> @echo
> @echo "Congratulations! All the release files are now in
> $(releasedir)."
> diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
> index 5b9942d420..0adadf69fa 100644
> --- a/doc/guix.texi
> +++ b/doc/guix.texi
> @@ -27747,7 +27747,7 @@ Whether or not the droplet should be created with
> IPv6 networking.
> @cindex virtual machine
> To run Guix in a virtual machine (VM), one can use the pre-built Guix VM
> image
> distributed at
> -@url{@value{BASE-URL}/guix-system-vm-image-@value{VERSION}.x86_64-linux.xz}.
> +@url{@value{BASE-URL}/guix-system-vm-image-@value{VERSION}.x86_64-linux.qcow2.xz}.
> This image is a compressed image in QCOW format. You will first need to
> decompress with @command{xz -d}, and then you can pass it to an emulator such
> as QEMU (see below for details).
Eh, sorry for not seeing this earlier; I've applied the same fix on the
version-1.3.0 branch with commit
ebf5d77eab148394c6db0dd135ea119ca377aaed, so at least this is fixed in
the soon released Guix v1.3.0 (planned for the 10th of May!).
Closing.
Maxim
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