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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2017-07-30 14:23:51 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2017-07-30 16:23:19 +0200 |
| commit | 03317cbfc4e76cfe208cafaa9ba9a103bb2b33b1 (patch) | |
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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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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 2beeaf9779..4d2c45e8a4 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -16472,7 +16472,13 @@ passed. @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. |