Hi, Mathieu Othacehe <m.othac...@gmail.com> skribis:
>>> ERROR: pty: failed to exec child /gnu/store/…-installer: Operation >>> not permitted (exec_child() in src/pty.c:299) >>> >>> in a loop and the VM became unusable. Not sure what happened! >> >> Hmm at least I can reproduce this issue, not sure what's >> happening. This error does not happend when creating a disk-image and >> running qemu manually. I'll try to investigate it soon. > > The problem seem to be related to cow-store on VM produced by guix > system vm. I can reproduce it on "master" by running: > > guix system vm /gnu/system/install.scm and appending -drive > format=raw,file=/home/mathieu/vm-test.img to the produced script. > > Then, > > mount /dev/sda1 /mnt > herd start cow-store /mnt > > -> Every command (like ls ou mount) fails because /gnu/store does not > seem to be reachable anymore. Oh indeed. I think that’s because / is already an overlayfs in ‘guix system vm’, so somehow we can’t just stack another overlayfs there. I should test in a standalone image produced by ‘guix system vm-image’ instead. Sorry for the confusion! Ludo’.
