Hello Taylan, Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer" <[email protected]> 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’.
