Hello Ludovic, Apologies for the late reply.
[email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Marius Bakke <[email protected]> skribis: > >> Oleg Pykhalov <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> EFI bootloader configuration causes problems to test with 'system vm' >>> before 'reconfigure'. >> >> This is because `guix system vm` is not currently UEFI enabled, so GRUB >> tries to install for a normal PC BIOS. >> >> The fix would be to make the various QEMU invocations in (gnu system vm) >> take a #:firmware parameter that passes something along the lines of >> '-bios #$(file-append ovmf "/share/ovmf/firmware/ovmf_x64.bin")' to the >> QEMU command-line, and update other scripts to take advantage. > > Perhaps by adding it to <virtual-machine> records we’d make it less > annoying to pass around? Or are there other places that would still > need extra care? > > Another option, in the meantime is this: > > diff --git a/gnu/system/vm.scm b/gnu/system/vm.scm > index 273a895be..f763b430b 100644 > --- a/gnu/system/vm.scm > +++ b/gnu/system/vm.scm > @@ -565,6 +565,14 @@ environment with the store shared with the host. > MAPPINGS is a list of > user-file-systems))) > > (operating-system (inherit os) > + > + ;; XXX: Until we run QEMU with UEFI support (with the OVMF firmware), > + ;; force the traditional i386/BIOS method. > + ;; See <https://bugs.gnu.org/28768>. > + (bootloader (bootloader-configuration > + (bootloader grub-bootloader) > + (target "/dev/vda"))) > + > (initrd (lambda (file-systems . rest) > (apply base-initrd file-systems > #:volatile-root? #t > > > That’s what I do manually anyway. > > WDYT? If that’s fine with you, I can commit it. > > Thanks, > Ludo’. Tiny improvement: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- natsu@magnolia ~/src/guix$ pre-guix system vm ~/dotfiles/guix/system-magnolia.scm Backtrace: 10 (primitive-load "/home/natsu/src/guix/scripts/guix") In guix/ui.scm: 1384:12 9 (run-guix-command _ . _) In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 837:9 8 (catch _ _ #<procedure 7f3d47deeac0 at guix/ui.scm:460:2 (key c)> _) 837:9 7 (catch _ _ #<procedure 7f3d47deead8 at guix/ui.scm:548:6 (key proc…> …) In guix/scripts/system.scm: 1099:8 6 (_) 974:6 5 (process-action _ _ _) In guix/store.scm: 1444:24 4 (run-with-store _ _ #:guile-for-build _ #:system _ #:target _) In guix/scripts/system.scm: 987:13 3 (_ _) 706:18 2 (perform-action vm #<<operating-system> kernel: #<package linux-li…> …) In gnu/system/vm.scm: 671:31 1 (system-qemu-image/shared-store-script #<<operating-system> kernel…> …) 559:4 0 (virtualized-operating-system #<<operating-system> kernel: #<packa…> …) gnu/system/vm.scm:559:4: In procedure virtualized-operating-system: gnu/system/vm.scm:559:4: In procedure module-lookup: Unbound variable: grub-bootloader --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- diff --git a/gnu/system/vm.scm b/gnu/system/vm.scm index f763b430b..7feb242d5 100644 --- a/gnu/system/vm.scm +++ b/gnu/system/vm.scm @@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ #:use-module (gnu packages admin) #:use-module (gnu bootloader) - #:use-module ((gnu bootloader grub) #:select (grub-mkrescue-bootloader)) + #:use-module ((gnu bootloader grub) #:select (grub-mkrescue-bootloader + grub-bootloader)) #:use-module (gnu system shadow) #:use-module (gnu system pam) #:use-module (gnu system linux-initrd) But I got another issue, not related to Grub. Loops in QEMU: … waiting for partition 'magnolia-data' to appear … failed to start service 'file-systems' …
