On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Julien Lepiller <jul...@lepiller.eu> wrote: > The qemu image however is meant to be copied directly to the virtual disk of > a VM, so it is not a live system, but your own system. I think it would be > better for the user to be able to access the configuration directly from the > VM and start from a known-good config before reconfiguring.
It's not just a known good configuration that you want here, but the exact one that has been used to generate the image. > I now have a > running GuixSD VM and it was a pain to configure, because the interface to > the VM did not allow copy-pasting and had a strange plugin for interpreting > my keystrokes. Had I have this file on the VM, I could have modified only a > small portion of it and continue with ssh. But I had to copy the sample > config character by character and hope I did not do any mistake. Been there, done that too... -- Vincent Legoll
