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bug#31887: Modules missing to boot on VMWare
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#31887: Modules missing to boot on VMWare |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 23:14:57 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello Taylan,
Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer" <address@hidden> skribis:
> Although we don't want to support non-free software, perhaps it would
> be nice to support booting Guix on VMWare without the user needing to
> do anything extra.
>
> While experimenting, I found out that if we just add the following
> three Linux modules to the standard initrd, Guix can boot on VMWare
> just fine: mptbase, mptscsih, mptspi
>
> mptspi depends on mptscsih, and both depend on mptbase, so if
> dependencies are handled automatically, declaring mptspi should be
> enough.
Currently every module we add to the initrd is actually loaded, so we
have to think twice before adding more. In this case I’d rather punt.
Danny and I started work a while back to load modules on demand à la
udev, so we could revisit that decision when this is implemented. Now,
if that only benefits VMWare, it’s low-priority for me.
Ludo’.