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authorMaxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>2023-02-16 15:13:29 -0500
committerMaxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>2023-02-25 14:46:55 -0500
commite403096b4ab43d983fe31441ac85cd3b9097ffba (patch)
treebe1243a9bf932355923ed57ca130b82a140f6d47 /gnu/packages
parentdd31263eb4cd42188c1d4685f03bb075c5f73469 (diff)
downloadguix-e403096b4ab43d983fe31441ac85cd3b9097ffba.tar.gz
gnu: gnome-boxes: Mention extra configuration requirements.
* gnu/packages/gnome.scm (gnome-boxes) [description]: Mention about extending
polkit and setuid services with spice-gtk.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/packages')
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/gnome.scm9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
index b44f47f861..620f5953d9 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
@@ -12545,7 +12545,7 @@ integrate seamlessly with the GNOME desktop.")
            libvirt
            libvirt-glib
            libxml2
-           qemu-minimal                           ;for qemu-img
+           qemu-minimal                 ;for qemu-img
            sparql-query
            spice-gtk
            tracker
@@ -12557,7 +12557,12 @@ integrate seamlessly with the GNOME desktop.")
 manage remote and virtual systems.  Note that this application requires the
 @code{libvirt} and @code{virtlog} daemons to run.  Use the command
 @command{info '(guix) Virtualization Services'} to learn how to configure
-these services on the Guix System.")
+these services on the Guix System.  If you do not use the
+@code{gnome-desktop-service-type}, you will also want to extend the
+@code{polkit-service-type} with the @code{spice-gtk} package, as well as
+configure the @file{libexec/spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper} executable of
+@code{spice-gtk} as setuid, to make it possible to redirect USB devices as a
+non-privileged user.")
     (license (list
               ;; For data/icons/empty-boxes.png.
               license:cc-by2.0