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080571eeac3f38e957434d5dda7568218a5a89dc — Ludovic Courtès 11 years ago 9b762b8
doc: Mention KVM support for 'guix system'.

* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix system): Add note about KVM support.
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

M doc/guix.texi
M doc/guix.texi => doc/guix.texi +6 -0
@@ 3263,6 3263,12 @@ using the following command:
@var{options} can contain any of the common build options provided by
@command{guix build} (@pxref{Invoking guix build}).

Note that all the actions above, except @code{build} and @code{init},
rely on KVM support in the Linux-Libre kernel.  Specifically, the
machine should have hardware virtualization support, the corresponding
KVM kernel module should be loaded, and the @file{/dev/kvm} device node
must exist and be readable and writable by the user and by the daemon's
build users.

@node Defining Services
@subsection Defining Services