Re: Trying to install Guix with Qemu

2014-09-30 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 30 Sep 01:59 -0500, Ernesto Celis wrote: > I know this thread is about qemu, but as you said you are a VitrualBox > user, it may be interesting to you. > > Last weekend I was able to install Guix 0.7 on virtualBox with the USB > image provided by Guix developers. I put my notes on gitori

Re: Trying to install Guix with Qemu

2014-09-29 Thread Ernesto Celis
On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 22:43:31 > From: Nate Bargmann > To: guix-devel@gnu.org > Subject: Trying to install Guix with Qemu > > I've just started playing with Guix and would like to do so using Qemu > rather than bare metal.

Re: Trying to install Guix with Qemu

2014-09-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 21 Sep 13:56 -0500, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > This is weird, there’s no reason why it would be slower than whatever > else you did before. Are you running QEMU with ‘-enable-kvm’? Yes. The only difference that I could really see is that I chose to create my image in the qcow2 format rat

Re: Trying to install Guix with Qemu

2014-09-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nate Bargmann skribis: > * On 2014 20 Sep 15:36 -0500, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> FWIW a recipe to install the system in a VM was posted at >> >> (also read subsequent messages for troubleshooting.) > > Trying the method shown in

Re: Trying to install Guix with Qemu

2014-09-20 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 20 Sep 15:36 -0500, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > FWIW a recipe to install the system in a VM was posted at > > (also read subsequent messages for troubleshooting.) Trying the method shown in the referenced thread, except fo

Re: Trying to install Guix with Qemu

2014-09-20 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 20 Sep 15:36 -0500, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > FWIW a recipe to install the system in a VM was posted at > > (also read subsequent messages for troubleshooting.) Ahhh, thanks. I will check that out. > The best thing to

Re: Trying to install Guix with Qemu

2014-09-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nate Bargmann skribis: > I've just started playing with Guix and would like to do so using Qemu > rather than bare metal. As the GNU system is only available for Guix > 0.7 as a USB drive image, this has posed a bit of a vexing problem to > me. I am a Qemu novice (I usually use Virtual Box) but

Trying to install Guix with Qemu

2014-09-20 Thread Nate Bargmann
I've just started playing with Guix and would like to do so using Qemu rather than bare metal. As the GNU system is only available for Guix 0.7 as a USB drive image, this has posed a bit of a vexing problem to me. I am a Qemu novice (I usually use Virtual Box) but I did get it to boot the USB ima