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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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@section Running Guix in a Virtual Machine
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@cindex virtual machine
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To run Guix in a virtual machine (VM), one can use the pre-built Guix VM image
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distributed at
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To run Guix in a virtual machine (VM), one can use the pre-built Guix VM
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image distributed at
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@url{@value{BASE-URL}/guix-system-vm-image-@value{VERSION}.x86_64-linux.qcow2}.
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This image is a compressed image in QCOW format. You will first need to
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decompress with @command{xz -d}, and then you can pass it to an emulator such
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as QEMU (see below for details).
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This image is a compressed image in QCOW format. You can pass it to an
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emulator such as @uref{https://qemu.org/, QEMU} (see below for details).
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This image boots the Xfce graphical environment and it contains some
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commonly used tools. You can install more software in the image by running
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as @file{/run/current-system/configuration.scm} (@pxref{Using the
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Configuration System}).
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Instead of using this pre-built image, one can also build their own virtual
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machine image using @command{guix system vm-image} (@pxref{Invoking guix
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system}). The returned image is in qcow2 format, which the
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@uref{https://qemu.org/, QEMU emulator} can efficiently use.
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Instead of using this pre-built image, one can also build their own
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image using @command{guix system image} (@pxref{Invoking guix system}).
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@cindex QEMU
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If you built your own image, you must copy it out of the store
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