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new 55aa508 doc: Do not instruct to decompress the VM image.
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commit 55aa50834fe07597adddbfc4e007de9420b195ec
Author: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Wed May 12 10:19:39 2021 -0400
doc: Do not instruct to decompress the VM image.
Also replace the obsolete 'guix system vm-image' command mention by the
'guix
system image'.
* doc/guix.texi (Running Guix in a VM): Remove VM image decompression
instruction.
<guix system vm-image>: Replace by 'guix system image'.
---
doc/guix.texi | 15 ++++++---------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index e501fcf..bfc714c 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -33632,12 +33632,11 @@ Whether or not the droplet should be created with
IPv6 networking.
@section Running Guix in a Virtual Machine
@cindex virtual machine
-To run Guix in a virtual machine (VM), one can use the pre-built Guix VM image
-distributed at
+To run Guix in a virtual machine (VM), one can use the pre-built Guix VM
+image distributed at
@url{@value{BASE-URL}/guix-system-vm-image-@value{VERSION}.x86_64-linux.qcow2}.
-This image is a compressed image in QCOW format. You will first need to
-decompress with @command{xz -d}, and then you can pass it to an emulator such
-as QEMU (see below for details).
+This image is a compressed image in QCOW format. You can pass it to an
+emulator such as @uref{https://qemu.org/, QEMU} (see below for details).
This image boots the Xfce graphical environment and it contains some
commonly used tools. You can install more software in the image by running
@@ -33646,10 +33645,8 @@ also reconfigure the system based on its initial
configuration file available
as @file{/run/current-system/configuration.scm} (@pxref{Using the
Configuration System}).
-Instead of using this pre-built image, one can also build their own virtual
-machine image using @command{guix system vm-image} (@pxref{Invoking guix
-system}). The returned image is in qcow2 format, which the
-@uref{https://qemu.org/, QEMU emulator} can efficiently use.
+Instead of using this pre-built image, one can also build their own
+image using @command{guix system image} (@pxref{Invoking guix system}).
@cindex QEMU
If you built your own image, you must copy it out of the store
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