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| -rw-r--r-- | Makefile.am | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 2 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index c6028c586a..d06e1779ca 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -900,9 +900,7 @@ release: dist-with-updated-version all echo "failed to produced Guix VM image for $$system" >&2 ; \ exit 1 ; \ fi ; \ - xz < "$$image" > "$(releasedir)/$(GUIX_SYSTEM_VM_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.qcow2.xz.tmp" ; \ - mv "$(releasedir)/$(GUIX_SYSTEM_VM_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.qcow2.xz.tmp" \ - "$(releasedir)/$(GUIX_SYSTEM_VM_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.qcow2.xz" ; \ + cp "$$image" "$(releasedir)/$(GUIX_SYSTEM_VM_IMAGE_BASE).$$system.qcow2"; \ done @echo @echo "Congratulations! All the release files are now in $(releasedir)." diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 7f54ddfb3c..9beef61c94 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -33491,7 +33491,7 @@ Whether or not the droplet should be created with IPv6 networking. @cindex virtual machine To run Guix in a virtual machine (VM), one can use the pre-built Guix VM image distributed at -@url{@value{BASE-URL}/guix-system-vm-image-@value{VERSION}.x86_64-linux.qcow2.xz}. +@url{@value{BASE-URL}/guix-system-vm-image-@value{VERSION}.x86_64-linux.qcow2}. This image is a compressed image in QCOW format. You will first need to decompress with @command{xz -d}, and then you can pass it to an emulator such as QEMU (see below for details). |