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| author | Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> | 2021-05-05 15:18:05 -0400 |
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| committer | Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> | 2021-05-05 16:31:06 -0400 |
| commit | b1b41a23f4e48e35bafe282029190bba32cb7218 (patch) | |
| tree | 8456b8560d73a7529e4ac3eaed0aa8f91d92ce78 | |
| parent | 6e71e719522adec83b49a1533af8b5838479c8fb (diff) | |
build: Do not compress the (already compressed) VM qcow2 images.
The qcow2 format supports compression, and the qcow2 type supported by 'guix
system image' produces compressed qcow2 images.
* Makefile.am (release): Do not re-compress the qcow2 VM images with xz.
* doc/guix.texi (Running Guix in a VM): Adjust VM image URL.
| -rw-r--r-- | Makefile.am | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 2 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index c6028c586a..d06e1779ca 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -900,9 +900,7 @@ release: dist-with-updated-version all echo "failed to produced Guix VM image for $$system" >&2 ; \ exit 1 ; \ fi ; \ - xz < "$$image" > "$(releasedir)/$(GUIX_SYSTEM_VM_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.qcow2.xz.tmp" ; \ - mv "$(releasedir)/$(GUIX_SYSTEM_VM_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.qcow2.xz.tmp" \ - "$(releasedir)/$(GUIX_SYSTEM_VM_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.qcow2.xz" ; \ + cp "$$image" "$(releasedir)/$(GUIX_SYSTEM_VM_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.qcow2"; \ done @echo @echo "Congratulations! All the release files are now in $(releasedir)." diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 7f54ddfb3c..9beef61c94 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -33491,7 +33491,7 @@ Whether or not the droplet should be created with IPv6 networking. @cindex virtual machine To run Guix in a virtual machine (VM), one can use the pre-built Guix VM image distributed at -@url{@value{BASE-URL}/guix-system-vm-image-@value{VERSION}.x86_64-linux.qcow2.xz}. +@url{@value{BASE-URL}/guix-system-vm-image-@value{VERSION}.x86_64-linux.qcow2}. This image is a compressed image in QCOW format. You will first need to decompress with @command{xz -d}, and then you can pass it to an emulator such as QEMU (see below for details). |