Kay Plößer <k...@kay.is> writes:
> To try things out, I installed the ISO image to a local VM, which > worked. However, the SSH server didn't start after boot, despite being > selected in the installation and ending up in the config.scm. I got it > running after updating the config and starting the server manually. Is > this normal? Can't reconfigure take care of the services? Will this > also apply to OCI containers? What VM environment was that? I run Guix on several physical and virtual machines (qemu/libvirt) and never saw that. But on more container-like VM's that doesn't boot via Shepherd it seems more likely to happen. Alas, 'guix pack' seems to be limited in what OCI images it can generate, and I haven't found any way to set the 'Cmd' parameter which would be needed to start things when you enter a OCI container: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2024-12/msg00170.html > Also, pull and reconfigure seem kinda slow and I often get an error > from the savanna server. Sometimes I have to run the commands 5 times > until it works. I read somewhere to add a substitute server to my > user's channels.scm, which I did (e.g., ci.guix.gnu.org), but it > doesn't seem to improve things consistently. Are there any faster > substitute servers or config options that can speed things up? I would like to know that too. > I like the idea of guix deploy for replacing Anisble, but it seems to > require another Guix System. Or is it possible to deploy on Ubuntu? You can install Guix on Ubuntu and deploy from there. > Do I have to remember anything crucial when converting from Docker Compose to > OCI? The README at https://gitlab.com/debdistutils/guix/container should contain a bunch of commands including hacks and ugly workarounds that you may need. > When I finally have everything how I like it, how do I get this config > to my VPS? The guide for Linode seems to suggest, I'd have to deploy a > Debian and turn it into a Guix System in-place. Is this the > recommended way if no custom images are allowed? I think VPS-specific instructions are needed here, a'la: https://f-a.nz/dev/guixsd-on-digitalocean/ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-06/msg00036.html Bottom section of: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-deploy.html Btw, wouldn't it be nice if you could URL link directly to the 'hetzner-configuration' part of that HTML page somehow? /Simon
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