Re: Planning for the next release

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> If possible, I would appreciate if the release included a QEMU image
> that we could offer to VPS hosters like serveraptor.com, as discussed in
> this thread:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-03/msg00772.html
>
> This would also depend on <https://bugs.gnu.org/26875> (Non-graphical
> GRUB menus) being merged.
>
> If the maintainers want to try for this, I'm happy to help prepare a
> system declaration and test it.

Why not.  Ricardo?

The main “difficulty” would be to adjust the “Download” page on the web
site, the instructions in the manual, “make release”, and to come up
with a clear file name for the new image.

I would assume that x86_64 is sufficient for the VPS image?

Thanks for reminding us of this,
LUdo’.