GNU bug report logs - #39815
Sharing the store between a host and a guest

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Message #23 received at 39815 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Damien Cassou <damien <at> cassou.me>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, Leo Famulari
 <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: 39815 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#39815: Sharing the store between a host and a guest
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 14:00:32 +0100

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
> However, one thing that could work is to:
>
>   1. in the guest, set GUIX_DAEMON_SOCKET=guix://localhost:1234;
>
>   2. set up QEMU port forwarding such that the guest’s port 1234 is
>      somehow redirected to a port the host guix-daemon listens to (with
>      ‘--listen’);
>
>   3. share /var/guix with the guest.
>
> It would be easier if Unix-domain sockets could be forwarded between the
> host and the guest, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.  :-/

thank you Ludovic.

-- 
Damien Cassou

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill

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