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Re: GuixSD qcow2 image for GNOME Boxes?
From: |
Leo Famulari |
Subject: |
Re: GuixSD qcow2 image for GNOME Boxes? |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Jan 2016 01:42:09 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) |
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:15:35PM -0500, Marc Dunivan wrote:
> Help Guix:
>
> On http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/ there are a number of
> gnu-system-demo*.qcow2 images. However, the latest file was modified on
> 2014-04-09 and doesn't seem to open in GNOME Boxes.
>
> I am hoping to use GNOME Boxes to explore GuixSD without installing it on my
> PenguinWee.
>
> Are their instructions on how to create a GuixSD qcow2 image in the Guix
> webpages? Can one take the guix-usb-install-0.9.0.x86_64-linux.xz files and
> create an image that GNOME Boxes can use?
If you simply want to try out GuixSD without installing to bare metal,
there are a number of tools in `guix system` [0] that can do this for
you, although I don't know about using them with GNOME Boxes.
`guix system` can give you read-only and read-write QEMU images, raw
disk images suitable for a USB flash drive, and it can also launch the
system in a container. The disk-image tool is used to create the
guix-usb-install-0.9.0.x86_64-linux.xz file [1].
In each case, you'll need an operating system configuration as
introduced here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Using-the-Configuration-System.html#Using-the-Configuration-System
I hope that helps!
[0]
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-system.html
[1] See section 7.1.5:
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#System-Installation
>
>
> Respectfully,
> Marc