On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 2:57 AM, myglc2 <myg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a headless server running Guix/Debian 8.3 on which I would like > to run some guix vms. So far, I have a script (see mkvm.sh, attached) > that runs a single vm. It has some issues: > > 1) lsh-service hangs waiting for keystrokes on the QEMU console
LSH needs to be initialized with a key on first boot, which is why you need to type to create entropy. This sucks for automation, so I would recommend OpenSSH instead, but we don't have an openssh-service yet. > 2) passwords need to be set in the QEMU console What is the QEMU console? If you mean user passwords, it is possible to specify the hashed password in a user account in your OS config file, IIRC. > 3) on the vm, 'guix package -i' throws an error, e.g., > > (on the console) > v1 login: u1 > password: <password> > $ guix package -i > accepted connection from pid 390, user u1 > guix package: error: build failed: changing ownership of '/path/store': > Read-only file system The VMs created with 'guix system vm' are immutable. Copying the result of 'guix system vm-image' is probably what you want. > 4) I can't log in to the vm like I expected, e.g. 'ssh u1@10.0.2.15' > times out Sounds like you have a QEMU networking issue to figure out. Doesn't seem related to Guix at all. > 5) I would like to have the user 'u1' share read/write access to the > $HOME directory and be able to use $HOME/.ssh credentials Once you have a writable disk image, you can just write files to the home directory as you please. GuixSD does not manage files in stateful directories like $HOME. HTH, - Dave
