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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-07-30 14:23:51 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-07-30 16:23:19 +0200
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doc: Give an example of arguments for the 'run-vm.sh' script.
Suggested by Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com>. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix system): Give an example of passing arguments to the 'run-vm.sh' script.
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@anchor{guix system vm}
Build a virtual machine that contains the operating system declared in
@var{file}, and return a script to run that virtual machine (VM).
-Arguments given to the script are passed to QEMU.
+Arguments given to the script are passed to QEMU as in the example
+below, which enables networking and requests 1@tie{}GiB of RAM for the
+emulated machine:
+
+@example
+$ /gnu/store/@dots{}-run-vm.sh -m 1024 -net user
+@end example
The VM shares its store with the host system.