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doc: Do not instruct to decompress the VM image. 

Also replace the obsolete 'guix system vm-image' command mention by the 'guix
system image'.

* doc/guix.texi (Running Guix in a VM): Remove VM image decompression
instruction.
<guix system vm-image>: Replace by 'guix system image'.
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@ -33632,12 +33632,11 @@ Whether or not the droplet should be created with IPv6 networking.
@section Running Guix in a Virtual Machine
@cindex virtual machine
To run Guix in a virtual machine (VM), one can use the pre-built Guix VM image
distributed at
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}.
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).
This image is a compressed image in QCOW format. You can pass it to an
emulator such as @uref{https://qemu.org/, QEMU} (see below for details).
This image boots the Xfce graphical environment and it contains some
commonly used tools. You can install more software in the image by running
@ -33646,10 +33645,8 @@ also reconfigure the system based on its initial configuration file available
as @file{/run/current-system/configuration.scm} (@pxref{Using the
Configuration System}).
Instead of using this pre-built image, one can also build their own virtual
machine image using @command{guix system vm-image} (@pxref{Invoking guix
system}). The returned image is in qcow2 format, which the
@uref{https://qemu.org/, QEMU emulator} can efficiently use.
Instead of using this pre-built image, one can also build their own
image using @command{guix system image} (@pxref{Invoking guix system}).
@cindex QEMU
If you built your own image, you must copy it out of the store