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Re: converting a distro to guixsd
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kevinbanjo |
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Re: converting a distro to guixsd |
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Tue, 19 Jan 2021 12:41:55 -0800 |
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 6:28 AM Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de> wrote:
> kevinbanjo <kevinbanjo@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 7:42 PM Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
> wrote:
> <snip>
> > That's kind of in essence what WSL (at least version 2) is.
> Ahhh. I didn't know that.
> Does qemu work on Linux? You could install Guix System that way.
>
Well, that is one possibility but I just got docker working and apparently
there's a pretty automated way to convert a docker image to a wsl2 one so
I'm going to take a stab at that.
WSL2 seems to be a fair bit lighter weight than a full blown VM. I guess
it's kind of a hybrid between a container and a VM.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/
> Ok. Well best of luck!
>
Thanks,
If I don't get this soon, I guess I'm going to whip out the external hard
drive, save off all my important stuff, and go full Guix native then spin
up windows in VMs when I need it, but I have little doubt configuration of
some of these windows programs (which drive hardware) will probably be a
whole nother headache!
-Kevin