Hi folks,
I’m trying to get Guix System running in a QEMU VM on Apple ARM64
hardware[1]. This has been much more challenging than I expected,
and I haven’t been able to get it working at all. I’m completely
stuck and could use some advice and/or a working configuration I
can hack on.
I’ve tried multiple paths to get this working, including building
both installer and system images on arm64 and amd64 hardware. My
current approach is to make a bootable qcow2 system image using
Guix as a foreign package manager on top of Debian running in a VM
on the ARM hardware. This is my image definition:
https://paste.debian.net/1342063/
It’s buildable with:
guix time-machine
--commit=96cd163c14e68c66c6a4cf0b18261fc454f8c1ba -- system
image vakum.scm
(Commits beyond 96cd163c14e68c66c6a4cf0b18261fc454f8c1ba fail,
because guix tests are currently broken on aarch64-linux; see
#75205)
This produces an image which boots to GRUB, but fails to boot the
system. It seems that the framebuffer console is initialized,
since I see the QEMU window resize, but then I get a blinking
cursor in the upper-left and nothing else.
Does anyone have pointers/advice/working configs for this I can
hack on? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
-- Ian
[1]: My work requires everyone to use a Mac, unfortunately.
