Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes:
> Chris[es],
>
> [If ‘commodity’ means ‘whatever this OpenStack thing might be’, or
> anything involving comparison of pets to cattle, this is not that. But
> this caught my eye:]
>
> On 02/12/16 20:51, Christopher Baines wrote:
>> Thanks for looking in to this Chris!
Christopher Baines writes:
> On 02/12/16 04:06, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
>> Except, oops! This won't boot. We need to put GRUB on it.
>>
>> Well here's where I'm stuck for tonight. I don't know exactly what's
>> needed; maybe either the -b flag, or --grub2-mbr, or some combination.
>> Th
Chris[es],
[If ‘commodity’ means ‘whatever this OpenStack thing might be’, or
anything involving comparison of pets to cattle, this is not that. But
this caught my eye:]
On 02/12/16 20:51, Christopher Baines wrote:
> Thanks for looking in to this Chris! I'm using Bytemark for personal
> servers,
On 02/12/16 04:06, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
Except, oops! This won't boot. We need to put GRUB on it.
Well here's where I'm stuck for tonight. I don't know exactly what's
needed; maybe either the -b flag, or --grub2-mbr, or some combination.
The man page is a little bit overwhelming (I
Hello everyone! So I got a very nice and useful response about getting
GuixSD working on Rackspace Cloud. I've gotten permission to post the
conversation verbatim, so I've done so below. But here's the tl;dr:
- In order for our image to work, we need to get XenServer and
nova-agent working
Chris Marusich writes:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Sounds like you've been having fun :-)
Yes, though I'd rather have things working than have fun right now ;)
> Christopher Allan Webber writes:
>
>> Christopher Allan Webber writes:
>>
>>> Relatedly! User dvc in #guix on freenode suggests looking at
>>> h
Hi Chris,
Sounds like you've been having fun :-)
Christopher Allan Webber writes:
> Christopher Allan Webber writes:
>
>> Relatedly! User dvc in #guix on freenode suggests looking at
>> https://www.vultr.com/ which looks quite affordable and hey! It has a
>> "custom ISO" option. If we can co
Christopher Allan Webber writes:
> Relatedly! User dvc in #guix on freenode suggests looking at
> https://www.vultr.com/ which looks quite affordable and hey! It has a
> "custom ISO" option. If we can convert our USB boot stick thingy
> (presumably via xorriso) we could try generating a base se
Chris Marusich writes:
> Hi,
>
> Reading Chris' report, I was inspired to try the same thing on EC2. I
> don't know much about Linode or Rackspace, but I do know EC2. I'm happy
> to report that I was successfully in creating a GuixSD EC2 instance.
>
> Here's what I did. Essentially, all I wante
Christopher Allan Webber writes:
> ng0 writes:
>
>> Christopher Allan Webber writes:
>>
>>> Onwards and upwards!
>>> - Chris
>>
>> In theory we could also try to init GuixSD from within an Debian
>> image (server), couldn't we?
>>
>> So we could also make a list of commonly offered virtual serv
Christopher Allan Webber writes:
> Christopher Allan Webber writes:
>
>> What am I doing wrong? I'm not totally sure... I feel like I'm
>> navigating a jungle out here in the OpenStack / Rackspace docs. Here's
>> one thing I found:
>>
>> https://community.rackspace.com/products/f/25/t/7186
>>
Marius Bakke writes:
> I've had the questionable privilege of working on Openstack for some
> time, and indeed have a GuixSD system running on it. I can tell you that
> any errors you see are not necessarily representative of what's
> happening in the back-end, although it does sound like the Rack
Hi,
Reading Chris' report, I was inspired to try the same thing on EC2. I
don't know much about Linode or Rackspace, but I do know EC2. I'm happy
to report that I was successfully in creating a GuixSD EC2 instance.
Here's what I did. Essentially, all I wanted to do was run "guix system
init" o
Christopher Allan Webber writes:
> What am I doing wrong? I'm not totally sure... I feel like I'm
> navigating a jungle out here in the OpenStack / Rackspace docs. Here's
> one thing I found:
>
> https://community.rackspace.com/products/f/25/t/7186
>
> So I probably need to execute this "impor
Hello all,
I tried getting GuixSD working on Rackspace Cloud last night. Ludovic
suggested I write to the list to talk about my success/failure,
regardless of whether I made it or not. My goal is to get GuixSD hosted
reliably on *some* commodity hosting platform, whether it's Rackspace or
Linode
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