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-rw-r--r--doc/guix.texi9
-rw-r--r--gnu/system/examples/vm-image.tmpl5
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index de30743d58..ddd20af256 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -24703,11 +24703,10 @@ network connectivity, for example @command{guix download}.
 
 @cindex SSH
 @cindex SSH server
-To enable SSH inside a VM you need to add a SSH server like @code{(dropbear-service)}
-or @code{(lsh-service)} to your VM.  The @code{(lsh-service}) doesn't currently
-boot unsupervised.  It requires you to type some characters to initialize the
-randomness generator.  In addition you need to forward the SSH port, 22 by
-default, to the host.  You can do this with
+To enable SSH inside a VM you need to add an SSH server like
+@code{openssh-service-type} to your VM (@pxref{Networking Services,
+@code{openssh-service-type}}).  In addition you need to forward the SSH port,
+22 by default, to the host.  You can do this with
 
 @example
 `guix system vm config.scm` -net user,hostfwd=tcp::10022-:22
diff --git a/gnu/system/examples/vm-image.tmpl b/gnu/system/examples/vm-image.tmpl
index b6f9daaf61..9bc08fa635 100644
--- a/gnu/system/examples/vm-image.tmpl
+++ b/gnu/system/examples/vm-image.tmpl
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ;;
 
 (use-modules (gnu) (srfi srfi-1))
-(use-service-modules desktop networking xorg)
+(use-service-modules desktop networking ssh xorg)
 (use-package-modules bootloaders nvi wget xorg)
 
 (define vm-image-motd (plain-file "motd" "
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ accounts.\x1b[0m
                             (xorg-configuration
                              (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))))
 
+                 ;; Uncomment the line below to add an SSH server.
+                 ;;(service openssh-service-type)
+
                  ;; Use the DHCP client service rather than NetworkManager.
                  (service dhcp-client-service-type))