Re: GUIX 0.7 under QEMU/KVM with virtio

2014-10-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Assaf Gordon skribis: > On 10/05/2014 08:29 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: I haven’t tried agetty, but it seems to have a hard-coded default login program of “/bin/login”, which doesn’t exist here. Could you try invoking it with -l $(guix build shadow)/bin/login ? Alternatel

Re: GUIX 0.7 under QEMU/KVM with virtio

2014-10-05 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 10/05/2014 08:29 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: I haven’t tried agetty, but it seems to have a hard-coded default login program of “/bin/login”, which doesn’t exist here. Could you try invoking it with -l $(guix build shadow)/bin/login ? Alternately you could try adding a mingetty servic

Re: GUIX 0.7 under QEMU/KVM with virtio

2014-10-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Assaf Gordon skribis: > On 10/04/2014 04:42 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >>> Is there a way to fix this? force the kernel to load virto driver? >> >> Currently all the drivers needed to mount the root partition must be >> explicitly loaded in the initrd. So yes, you would need to have the >> vir

Re: GUIX 0.7 under QEMU/KVM with virtio

2014-10-04 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hi, Thanks for the help. Some more details (replying out of order): On 10/04/2014 04:42 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Is there a way to fix this? force the kernel to load virto driver? Currently all the drivers needed to mount the root partition must be explicitly loaded in the initrd. So yes,

Re: GUIX 0.7 under QEMU/KVM with virtio

2014-10-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Assaf, Assaf Gordon skribis: > First, > I can provide another recipe: Thanks for the recipe. We should probably add a subsection on how to install to a VM image in the manual. Would you like to amend guix.texi for that? > Second, > I can confirm Nate's observation that using QEMU's "-usb