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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-06-19 23:29:05 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-06-19 23:35:41 +0200
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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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@@ -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