Re: Building Docker images of GuixSD

Christopher Baines writes: > Unfortunately, while I could get a shell using "docker exec ...", I had > to start the guix-daemon manually as the shepherd service didn't seem to > work, at least initially. Also, when I had started it, I tried > installing a package, and there was some promising out

Re: Building Docker images of GuixSD

Hi, Christopher Baines writes: > Awesome stuff Chris, I've tried this myself, on a Debian machine with > Docker installed. Great! It's heartening to know that I'm not the only one tinkering with this. :-) > I changed the %base-file-systems in the very-bare-bones system with > %container-file

Re: Building Docker images of GuixSD

Hello, Christopher Baines skribis: > Unfortunately, while I could get a shell using "docker exec ...", I had > to start the guix-daemon manually as the shepherd service didn't seem to > work, at least initially. Also, when I had started it, I tried > installing a package, and there was some prom

Re: Building Docker images of GuixSD

Chris Marusich writes: > Hi Ludo and others following along, ... > Thanks for reading this far. I look forward to hearing your thoughts! Awesome stuff Chris, I've tried this myself, on a Debian machine with Docker installed. I struggled getting root, as su and sudo didn't seem to work, until

Re: Building Docker images of GuixSD

Hi Chris, Chris Marusich skribis: > Run GuixSD in Docker > > > The attached patch makes it possible to build a GuixSD Docker image from > an operating system configuration file. For some reason, I had overlooked this message, but it’s awesome! > Pretty neat! Yup! > Probl

Re: Building Docker images of GuixSD

Hi Chris, I've run GuixSD in a Docker container and returned to tell the tale! Congratulations! And thanks for exploring all this. > Is this helpful? Is it worth polishing up and maintaining? I'm not > entirely sure, and I'd like to know what you think. I think it is useful, mainly for reas

Re: Building Docker images of GuixSD

Chris, this is very interesting! Even with privileged mode it makes it much easier to experiment. Pj. On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 10:15:38PM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote: > Hi Ludo and others following along, > > I've run GuixSD in a Docker container and returned to tell the tale! > The attached pat

Re: Building Docker images of GuixSD

Hi Ludo and others following along, I've run GuixSD in a Docker container and returned to tell the tale! The attached patch requires a lot of cleaning up (e.g., proper ChangeLog entry, update documentation, remove some unnecessary imports and debug messages that are probably still in there), so I'

Re: Building Docker images of GuixSD

Hi! Chris Marusich skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: [...] >> Or we mount the host store over 9p and exec a dynamically-linked Guile >> from there. > > I understand hat by "9p" you mean to share the file system with the VM, > but I don't quite understand what this option entail

Re: Building Docker images of GuixSD

l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Chris Marusich skribis: > >> [1.345843] FS-Cache: Loaded >> [1.362140] 9pnet: Installing 9P2000 support >> [1.366118] 9p: Installing v9fs 9p2000 file system support >> [1.368730] FS-Cache: Netfs '9p' registered for caching >> configuring QE