Re: using guix in virtualbox

[Adam Pribyl]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2015, westlake wrote:

> Hi, I've noticed that people have been using virtualbox with guix, but over 
> here with 0.8.1 (64-linux), i'm noticing a bootup issue upon post-install
>
> The setup is informative enough from the guix install page, on top of which I 
> create two empty .vdi disks, and can use qemu-nbd to transfer the raw image 
> of the usb-install.
>
> It's actually pretty easy to set this up, and it took under 20 minutes. 
> However after rebooting and then "unplugging" the installer drive from 
> Virtualbox. The grub boot menu shows up, it appears the init starts but soon 
> there is a freezing issue.
>
> Not sure what to do from this point, I understand more details would be 
> needed to see why this is happening so I added an attachment.
>
> thanks


This is how I did it with 0.8

convertfromraw gnu-usb-install-version-linux-i686 gnu.vdi --format vdi

Attach it as a new SATA storage to new VB machine, enable PAE in 
System/Processor tab, otherwise it may crash. Add another disk image to 
install to and after a boot continue with install.

Adam Pribyl