Re: QEMU image boots into dmd

[Mark H Weaver]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> So (gnu system vm) and its friends are now able to build a bootable QEMU
> image.  That’s still *very* rough on the edges, but it boots into dmd
> (version -0.4 is out BTW, 10 years later ;-)).

That's great news!  :)  (:  :)

> Once logged in you can run incredible things such
> as ‘/nix/store/*dmd*/bin/deco detailed-status dmd’.

I ran this command, and a strange thing happened: every character in the
output was written twice, mostly (but not entirely) interleaved, as if
two processes were writing the same output at the same time.

> PS: The good news is that 90% of this work is directly reusable for a
>     “real” system, and not specific to virtual images.

Indeed; these are exciting times for Guix!

   Many thanks,
      Mark