Hi! I am opening this thread again to mention some few things. I had to add one last line to the qemu command: (First ran : qemu-img create hda.img 50G)
qemu-system-x86_64 \ -m 1024 \ -nodefaults \ -drive file=hda.img,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0 \ -device ide-hd,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1 \ -drive file=guixsd-install-0.15.0.x86_64-linux.iso,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-1,readonly=on \ -device ide-cd,bus=ide.0,unit=1,drive=drive-ide0-0-1,id=ide0-0-1,bootindex=2 \ -device qxl-vga \ -net user -net nic,model=virtio Because I had no eth0 interface. I also got gábor's warning. Everything worked fine, except the part of being able to switch ttys (ie open tty2 to see the documentation). And I could not use the mouse to copy text. I added the -show-cursor but that did not solve the problem. Since this machine is not my retroPC, and also wanted to learn more, instead of using the bare_bone.scm I used the lightweight, one, replacing the bootloader type, deleting the mapped devices stuff, and adding just xfce GUI. While doing guix init ... I fell asleep with my machine unplugged, and today when I opened qemu, however, it showed the GUI. But weird things happened, like the mouse kind of alive moving without control over the VM, and I saw when loading everything before showing the GUI, that it showed something about the wireless connection (I did not want that). I started again with the installation - i amost remember all the steps without having to take a look at the documentation - just adding more memory and using desktop.scm template, just changing username, timezone, and bootloader , and see what happens. Regards, Laura