I've just started playing with Guix and would like to do so using Qemu rather than bare metal. As the GNU system is only available for Guix 0.7 as a USB drive image, this has posed a bit of a vexing problem to me. I am a Qemu novice (I usually use Virtual Box) but I did get it to boot the USB image file and also was able to mount a created qcow2 disk image for it. That is where I seem to have run aground.
It seems that Qemu when passed the -usb option makes that image /dev/sda and the image file I intend to install to must be given with the -hdb option. When I edited /mnt/etc/config.scm I assumed the disk image would be /dev/sda but that seems to have resulted in at least Grub (maybe more packages) being installed into the USB image. Clearly, this isn't what I want. Do I specify /dev/sdb in config.scm and then just boot it as -hdb in the future? I apologize if this is more of a Qemu question as I didn't see anything in the Qemu documentation that steered me toward reversing its drive assignments. Hopefully, I'm not the only person interested in exploring the GNU system/Guix in a virtual machine, am I? - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us
