Re: *** TRYING TO INSTALL GUIXSD v0.15.0 FOR DAYS ***

[Brian Woodcox]

Hi Mark,

I do have it working now in VirtualBox.

I may try it again down the road, just to see how smooth the experience should 
be. :)

The only real problem I have with this setup is the fact that the windowing 
system (XFCE) in VirtualBox is loosing mouse functionality.

The mouse pointer is there, but I can’t always select things graphically.  
Mainly happens when I open a window and try to click on the desktop.  Oh well, 
that’s the cutting edge I guess.

I was also installing GuixSD with QEMU.  That runs a lot slower than the 
VirtualBox install, but I probably could have given more resources to that 
build.

At any rate the QEMU install bombed out with an error, so now I am using the 
hydra site and things are progressing so well that it was up and running in a 
very short time.

Thanks.

> On Nov 5, 2018, at 10:14 PM, Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi Brian,
> 
> Earlier, I wrote:
>> (1) You could wait until hydra.gnu.org comes back online, which I expect
>> to happen sometime next week.  Hydra has a full set of substitutes for
>> 0.15.0, so you shouldn't need to build Guile at that point.
> 
> hydra.gnu.org is now back up, so this would be a good time to try again.
> 
>     Mark