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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-05-22 22:32:53 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-05-22 23:24:13 +0200
commitf19c6e5fe79c8bbd3c9ea25cd0380681bd99ce13 (patch)
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parentc4a74364b9ddb5c34bce788d453f93aa307731dd (diff)
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vm: Use a para-virtualized disk when creating an image.
* guix/build/vm.scm (load-in-linux-vm): When MAKE-DISK-IMAGE?, use '-drive ...,if=virtio' for better performance. * gnu/system/vm.scm (qemu-image): Use /dev/vda instead of /dev/sda.
Diffstat (limited to 'guix/build')
-rw-r--r--guix/build/vm.scm3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/guix/build/vm.scm b/guix/build/vm.scm
index 4de536abb4..e559542f0a 100644
--- a/guix/build/vm.scm
+++ b/guix/build/vm.scm
@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ the #:references-graphs parameter of 'derivation'."
"-append" (string-append "console=ttyS0 --load="
builder)
(if make-disk-image?
- `("-hda" ,image-file)
+ `("-drive" ,(string-append "file=" image-file
+ ",if=virtio"))
'())))
(error "qemu failed" qemu))