The Guix manual implicitly suggests using QEMU, do you agree? Why or why not?
Do you have any other advice for how to create a sandbox to try guix system? I’m coming from Ubuntu and want to make heavy use of emacs if possible.
Thanks!
QEMU is fine and the standard method on Linux.
If your’e on Ubuntu, you’re most likely on Gnome and you should be easily able to run the image with a tool called Boxes (also uses QEMU internally).
fwiw, i tried to use the “guix box” and it failed, so did the nix one, and arch, so I feel like these boxes are pretty useless for anything not offical ubuntu.
Strange, as the settings should come from https://libosinfo.org/. Did you try to download the image yourself and just run in in boxes?
Try to go with create from file and use https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-vm-image-1.4.0.x86_64-linux.qcow2 or anything else you like from data/os/guix.gnu.org · main · libosinfo / osinfo-db · GitLab.
Thanks, I’m going to try with the System Crafters image because that’s what It seems i’ll need to use for my laptop.
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IMHO, a good choice, as I used the same ISO to do the installation on my ThinkPad.
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