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Chris Marusich |
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[bug#30572] [PATCH 4/7] gnu: When building in a VM, share a temporary directory. |
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Tue, 20 Mar 2018 04:20:39 +0100 |
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Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> writes:
> There are now three manual "-virtfs" arguments to qemu. It's starting to irk
> me
> a little. It might make sense to generate those from %linux-vm-filesystems
> in order to not have so much duplication and places where things can go wrong
> when maintaining.
>
> If you'd like, could you maybe pass the %linux-vm-filesystems to
> load-in-linux-vm and then automatically calculate those -virtfs entries?
>
> (In a future patchset - I don't wanna hold up this one)
I agree this would be nice. I also agree we should do it in a future
patch series.
> There's already common-qemu-options which would support
><file-system-mapping>,
> and %store-mapping, so actually it would make sense to use those (probably
> easiest
> to move build/vm.scm's load-in-linux-vm into system/vm.scm
> expression->derivation-in-linux-vm so the qemu stuff isn't scattered all over
> the place - right now, half is in gnu/system/vm.scm and a mostly redundant
> half
> is in gnu/build/vm.scm ... not ideal).
>
> There's a "mapping->file-system" helper, so it might make sense to use
> <file-system-mapping> instead of <file-system> in %linux-vm-filesystems.
>
> So all in all:
>
> * Modify %linux-vm-filesystems to be file-system-mappings instead of
> file-systems.
> Also modify the place it is used.
> * Move load-in-linux-vm to gnu/system/vm.scm (maybe inline into caller).
> * Modify load-in-linux-vm to use common-qemu-options.
> Notice that the "-append" option is passed twice. Bug... <-- I just fixed
> that in master
Good catch! Thank you for fixing it.
> If you want I can do it.
I wish I could say "I'll do it!", but honestly I might not be able to
get to it for a few weeks. So if you have the time, by all means please
do it! Otherwise, I might get around to it eventually.
--
Chris
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