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 <l...@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). -- 2.26.2
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