On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:15:35PM -0500, Marc Dunivan wrote: > Help Guix: > > On http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/ there are a number of > gnu-system-demo*.qcow2 images. However, the latest file was modified on > 2014-04-09 and doesn't seem to open in GNOME Boxes. > > I am hoping to use GNOME Boxes to explore GuixSD without installing it on my > PenguinWee. > > Are their instructions on how to create a GuixSD qcow2 image in the Guix > webpages? Can one take the guix-usb-install-0.9.0.x86_64-linux.xz files and > create an image that GNOME Boxes can use?
If you simply want to try out GuixSD without installing to bare metal, there are a number of tools in `guix system` [0] that can do this for you, although I don't know about using them with GNOME Boxes. `guix system` can give you read-only and read-write QEMU images, raw disk images suitable for a USB flash drive, and it can also launch the system in a container. The disk-image tool is used to create the guix-usb-install-0.9.0.x86_64-linux.xz file [1]. In each case, you'll need an operating system configuration as introduced here: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Using-the-Configuration-System.html#Using-the-Configuration-System I hope that helps! [0] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-system.html [1] See section 7.1.5: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#System-Installation > > > Respectfully, > Marc
