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| author | Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> | 2021-05-12 10:19:39 -0400 |
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| committer | Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> | 2021-05-12 10:22:38 -0400 |
| commit | 55aa50834fe07597adddbfc4e007de9420b195ec (patch) | |
| tree | 93fa7722a9646d829a13a66336d6bc66b74826a0 /doc | |
| parent | f8a4724c101880892640dcc2fe3438dc2a26b624 (diff) | |
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doc: Do not instruct to decompress the VM image.
Also replace the obsolete 'guix system vm-image' command mention by the 'guix
system image'.
* doc/guix.texi (Running Guix in a VM): Remove VM image decompression
instruction.
<guix system vm-image>: Replace by 'guix system image'.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 15 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index e501fcfc52..bfc714c5b6 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -33632,12 +33632,11 @@ Whether or not the droplet should be created with IPv6 networking. @section Running Guix in a Virtual Machine @cindex virtual machine -To run Guix in a virtual machine (VM), one can use the pre-built Guix VM image -distributed at +To run Guix in a virtual machine (VM), one can use the pre-built Guix VM +image distributed at @url{@value{BASE-URL}/guix-system-vm-image-@value{VERSION}.x86_64-linux.qcow2}. -This image is a compressed image in QCOW format. You will first need to -decompress with @command{xz -d}, and then you can pass it to an emulator such -as QEMU (see below for details). +This image is a compressed image in QCOW format. You can pass it to an +emulator such as @uref{https://qemu.org/, QEMU} (see below for details). This image boots the Xfce graphical environment and it contains some commonly used tools. You can install more software in the image by running @@ -33646,10 +33645,8 @@ also reconfigure the system based on its initial configuration file available as @file{/run/current-system/configuration.scm} (@pxref{Using the Configuration System}). -Instead of using this pre-built image, one can also build their own virtual -machine image using @command{guix system vm-image} (@pxref{Invoking guix -system}). The returned image is in qcow2 format, which the -@uref{https://qemu.org/, QEMU emulator} can efficiently use. +Instead of using this pre-built image, one can also build their own +image using @command{guix system image} (@pxref{Invoking guix system}). @cindex QEMU If you built your own image, you must copy it out of the store |