doc: Detail which bootloader get used with disk-image or vm-image.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix system): Extend doc.master
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the @option{--image-size} option is ignored in the case of
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@code{docker-image}.
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@cindex disk-image, creating disk images
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The @code{disk-image} command can produce various image types. The
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image type can be selected using the @command{--image-type} option. It
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defaults to @code{raw}. When its value is @code{iso9660}, the
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defaults to @code{raw}. When its value is @code{iso9660}, the
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@option{--label} option can be used to specify a volume ID with
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@code{disk-image}.
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@code{disk-image}. When using @code{disk-image}, the bootloader
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installed on the generated image is taken from the provided
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@code{operating-system} definition. The following example demonstrates
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how to generate an image that uses the @code{grub-efi-bootloader}
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bootloader and boot it with QEMU:
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@example
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image=$(guix system disk-image --image-type=qcow2 \
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gnu/system/examples/lightweight-desktop.tmpl)
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cp $image /tmp/my-image.qcow2
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chmod +w /tmp/my-image.qcow2
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qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -hda /tmp/my-image.qcow2 -m 1000
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-bios $(guix build ovmf)/share/firmware/ovmf_x64.bin
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@end example
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When using the @code{raw} image type, a raw disk image is produced; it
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can be copied as is to a USB stick, for instance. Assuming
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The @code{--list-image-types} command lists all the available image
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types.
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@cindex vm-image, creating virtual machine images
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When using @code{vm-image}, the returned image is in qcow2 format, which
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the QEMU emulator can efficiently use. @xref{Running Guix in a VM},
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for more information on how to run the image in a virtual machine.
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the QEMU emulator can efficiently use. @xref{Running Guix in a VM}, for
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more information on how to run the image in a virtual machine. The
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@code{grub-bootloader} bootloader is always used independently of what
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is declared in the @code{operating-system} file passed as argument.
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This is to make it easier to work with QEMU, which uses the SeaBIOS BIOS
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by default, expecting a bootloader to be installed in the Master Boot
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Record (MBR).
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@cindex docker-image, creating docker images
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When using @code{docker-image}, a Docker image is produced. Guix builds
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the image from scratch, not from a pre-existing Docker base image. As a
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result, it contains @emph{exactly} what you define in the operating
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