From 8ac318068b22b34fbee9980e607020f45a5b549e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:45:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] services: hurd-vm: Check whether /dev/kvm exists at run time.
This change allows a childhurd to run within Guix System in a VM.
* gnu/services/virtualization.scm (hurd-vm-shepherd-service)[vm-command]:
Stage the 'file-exists?' call.
---
gnu/services/virtualization.scm | 15 ++++++++-------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gnu/services/virtualization.scm b/gnu/services/virtualization.scm
index d184eea7461..b84203ad18a 100644
--- a/gnu/services/virtualization.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/virtualization.scm
@@ -937,13 +937,14 @@ (define (hurd-vm-shepherd-service config)
(provisions '(hurd-vm childhurd)))
(define vm-command
- #~(list
- (string-append #$qemu "/bin/qemu-system-i386")
- #$@(if (file-exists? "/dev/kvm") '("--enable-kvm") '())
- "-m" (number->string #$memory-size)
- #$@net-options
- #$@options
- "--hda" #+image))
+ #~(append (list #$(file-append qemu "/bin/qemu-system-i386")
+ "-m" (number->string #$memory-size)
+ #$@net-options
+ #$@options
+ "--hda" #+image)
+ (if (file-exists? "/dev/kvm")
+ '("--enable-kvm")
+ '())))
(list
(shepherd-service
--
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