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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-06-19 23:29:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-06-19 23:35:41 +0200 |
| commit | 080571eeac3f38e957434d5dda7568218a5a89dc (patch) | |
| tree | 363b348aa016be636770c8abc0a90bf73bc2a599 | |
| parent | 9b762b8d7cd6b90bde5bc21c1d63601aad3d3885 (diff) | |
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doc: Mention KVM support for 'guix system'.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix system): Add note about KVM support.
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index c14272ed9a..446c688679 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -3263,6 +3263,12 @@ using the following command: @var{options} can contain any of the common build options provided by @command{guix build} (@pxref{Invoking guix build}). +Note that all the actions above, except @code{build} and @code{init}, +rely on KVM support in the Linux-Libre kernel. Specifically, the +machine should have hardware virtualization support, the corresponding +KVM kernel module should be loaded, and the @file{/dev/kvm} device node +must exist and be readable and writable by the user and by the daemon's +build users. @node Defining Services @subsection Defining Services |