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Re: VM image: can we simplify its use?
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: VM image: can we simplify its use? |
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Wed, 10 Apr 2019 22:52:01 +0200 |
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Hi Leo,
Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
> Originally I added the VM image to address a specific use case at one VM
> hoster. I had hoped it would catch on more than it did and that the VM
> image would be improved to avoid these manual steps.
>
> In the meantime, people are using the VM image just to try out Guix —
> for example, in a local QEMU instance.
>
> It doesn't give a great impression, so let's change it.
Agreed.
> We should offer something like a "Live Guix" image for people to try the
> full Guix system without installing anything, and this should be more
> fully-featured than the current Guix VM image.
>
> Let's replace the current VM image with this "Live Guix" thing for the
> next release :) Should we adopt 'desktop.tmpl' for this?
I think we could start from there. With GNOME, that’d be 2+ GiB
probably, which is pretty big; otherwise we could come up with a lighter
setup, say SLiM + Xfce (+ IceCat?).
Thoughts?
> Eventually we should also offer a Guix system service that works like
> cloud-init [0] and can replace the manual work around networking,
> partitioning, etc. Help wanted!
It seems cloud-init is largely about running some sort of a YAMLish
shell script that runs commands to obtain the desired state in terms of
installed packages, system setup, and all that, right? To some extent
that seems redundant with a typical OS declaration, no?
Thanks for your feedback!
Ludo’.
- VM image: can we simplify its use?, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/04/04
- Re: VM image: can we simplify its use?, Gábor Boskovits, 2019/04/06
- Re: VM image: can we simplify its use?, Leo Famulari, 2019/04/09
- Re: VM image: can we simplify its use?, Daniel Jiang, 2019/04/10
- Re: VM image: can we simplify its use?,
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- Re: VM image: can we simplify its use?, Chris Marusich, 2019/04/17
- New VM image, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/04/25
- Re: New VM image, Leo Famulari, 2019/04/25
- Re: New VM image, Chris Marusich, 2019/04/26
- Re: New VM image, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/04/26
- Re: New VM image, Danny Milosavljevic, 2019/04/26
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- Re: New VM image, Chris Marusich, 2019/04/29