On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 7:38 PM, David Craven <da...@craven.ch> wrote: > So guix doesn't work inside a vm - because /gnu/store is mounted > readonly. To be able to offload arm builds once guix system vm > --system=armhf-linux works, /gnu/store needs to be writeable. > > Can multiple daemons concurrently use the same store? > > or alternatively, can we move the > > (unless (zero? (system* unionfs "-o" > > "cow,allow_other,use_ino,suid,dev,max_files=65536" > "/rw-root=RW:/real-root=RO" > "/root")) > (error "unionfs failed")) > > to after the 9p filesystems have been mounted, so that the unionfs > allows writing to /gnu/store too?
I'd appreciate some ideas on how to best tackle this problem (offloading builds to a guix system vm instance) =)