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| author | Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> | 2017-06-17 01:05:02 -0400 |
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| committer | Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> | 2017-06-17 01:11:14 -0400 |
| commit | c8f54f5346ef32c56cd2190ec0aff1b07ff13973 (patch) | |
| tree | 188341ef0c88e3b2f65f09592c9a23fb006508df | |
| parent | 42b48db2e2a6015113c2707f0ddd7ea59ca5a67d (diff) | |
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doc: Clarify comment about QEMU qcow2 file sizes.
* doc/guix.texi (Installing GuixSD in a Virtual Machine): Clarify comment about
QEMU's qcow2 virtualized block device file format.
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index cb5821e698..db0e2fbd78 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -7799,7 +7799,8 @@ qcow2-formatted disk image, use the @command{qemu-img} command: qemu-img create -f qcow2 guixsd.img 5G @end example -This will create a 5GB file. +The resulting file will be much smaller than 5GB, but it will grow as +the virtualized storage device is filled up. @item Boot the USB installation image in an VM: |