Subject: [bug#27401] [PATCH] doc: Suggest a QEMU image size large enough for the system examples.

From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 19:55:03 +0200

Leo Famulari writes:

> * doc/guix.texi (Installing GuixSD in a Virtual Machine): Increase suggested
> image size from 5 GB to 50 GB.

LGTM, however -- What about something like this patch too?  I seems that
the VMs we create (although they are of the ballooning cow2 kind), are
2GiB -- i.e., almost unusable for Real Stuff (TM)?

$ git diff
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index a3b3e557a..ff2ae120b 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ GUIXSD_VM_IMAGE_BASE = guixsd-vm-image-$(PACKAGE_VERSION)
 GUIXSD_INSTALLATION_IMAGE_SIZE ?= 950MiB
 
 # Size of the VM image (for x86_64 typically).
-GUIXSD_VM_IMAGE_SIZE ?= 2GiB
+GUIXSD_VM_IMAGE_SIZE ?= 50GiB
 
 # The release process works in several phases:
 #

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