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authorLeo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>2017-01-06 17:14:41 -0500
committerLeo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>2017-01-06 17:14:41 -0500
commit74288230ea8b2310495dc2739f39ceadcc143fd0 (patch)
tree73ba6c7c13d59c5f92b409c94dccfff159e08f4d /gnu/tests/install.scm
parent92e779592d269ca1924f184496eb4ca832997b12 (diff)
parentaa21c764d65068783ae31febee2a92eb3d138a24 (diff)
downloadguix-74288230ea8b2310495dc2739f39ceadcc143fd0.tar.gz
Merge branch 'master' into core-updates
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diff --git a/gnu/tests/install.scm b/gnu/tests/install.scm
index ecf1ac1923..4779b80e94 100644
--- a/gnu/tests/install.scm
+++ b/gnu/tests/install.scm
@@ -199,8 +199,15 @@ IMAGE, a disk image.  The QEMU VM is has access to MEMORY-SIZE MiB of RAM."
   (mlet %store-monad ((system (current-system)))
     (return #~(let ((image #$image))
                 ;; First we need a writable copy of the image.
-                (format #t "copying image '~a'...~%" image)
-                (copy-file image "disk.img")
+                (format #t "creating writable image from '~a'...~%" image)
+                (unless (zero? (system* #+(file-append qemu-minimal
+                                                       "/bin/qemu-img")
+                                        "create" "-f" "qcow2"
+                                        "-o"
+                                        (string-append "backing_file=" image)
+                                        "disk.img"))
+                  (error "failed to create writable QEMU image" image))
+
                 (chmod "disk.img" #o644)
                 `(,(string-append #$qemu-minimal "/bin/"
                                   #$(qemu-command system))