Modules missing to boot on VMWare

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  • Ludovic Courtès
  • Taylan Ulrich Bay?rl?/Kammer
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Taylan Ulrich Bay?rl?/Kammer wrote on 18 Jun 2018 22:58
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Although we don't want to support non-free software, perhaps it would
be nice to support booting Guix on VMWare without the user needing to
do anything extra.

While experimenting, I found out that if we just add the following
three Linux modules to the standard initrd, Guix can boot on VMWare
just fine: mptbase, mptscsih, mptspi

mptspi depends on mptscsih, and both depend on mptbase, so if
dependencies are handled automatically, declaring mptspi should be
enough.


Taylan
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 20 Jun 2018 23:14
(name . Taylan Ulrich Bay?rl?/Kammer)(address . taylanbayirli@gmail.com)(address . 31887@debbugs.gnu.org)
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Hello Taylan,

Taylan Ulrich "Bay?rl?/Kammer" <taylanbayirli@gmail.com> skribis:

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> Although we don't want to support non-free software, perhaps it would
> be nice to support booting Guix on VMWare without the user needing to
> do anything extra.
>
> While experimenting, I found out that if we just add the following
> three Linux modules to the standard initrd, Guix can boot on VMWare
> just fine: mptbase, mptscsih, mptspi
>
> mptspi depends on mptscsih, and both depend on mptbase, so if
> dependencies are handled automatically, declaring mptspi should be
> enough.

Currently every module we add to the initrd is actually loaded, so we
have to think twice before adding more. In this case I’d rather punt.

Danny and I started work a while back to load modules on demand à la
udev, so we could revisit that decision when this is implemented. Now,
if that only benefits VMWare, it’s low-priority for me.

Ludo’.
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Taylan Kammer wrote on 21 Jun 2018 20:19
(name . Ludovic Courtès)(address . ludo@gnu.org)(address . 31887@debbugs.gnu.org)
87in6c9f57.fsf@gmail.com
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

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> Hello Taylan,
>
> Taylan Ulrich "Bay?rl?/Kammer" <taylanbayirli@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Although we don't want to support non-free software, perhaps it would
>> be nice to support booting Guix on VMWare without the user needing to
>> do anything extra.
>>
>> While experimenting, I found out that if we just add the following
>> three Linux modules to the standard initrd, Guix can boot on VMWare
>> just fine: mptbase, mptscsih, mptspi
>>
>> mptspi depends on mptscsih, and both depend on mptbase, so if
>> dependencies are handled automatically, declaring mptspi should be
>> enough.
>
> Currently every module we add to the initrd is actually loaded, so we
> have to think twice before adding more. In this case I’d rather punt.
>
> Danny and I started work a while back to load modules on demand à la
> udev, so we could revisit that decision when this is implemented. Now,
> if that only benefits VMWare, it’s low-priority for me.

Understood and agreed. :-)

Should this bug remain open as a reminder?

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> Ludo’.

Taylan
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 21 Jun 2018 22:52
(name . Taylan Kammer)(address . taylanbayirli@gmail.com)(address . 31887@debbugs.gnu.org)
87o9g36ex8.fsf@gnu.org
Taylan Kammer <taylanbayirli@gmail.com> skribis:

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> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Hello Taylan,
>>
>> Taylan Ulrich "Bay?rl?/Kammer" <taylanbayirli@gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>>> Although we don't want to support non-free software, perhaps it would
>>> be nice to support booting Guix on VMWare without the user needing to
>>> do anything extra.
>>>
>>> While experimenting, I found out that if we just add the following
>>> three Linux modules to the standard initrd, Guix can boot on VMWare
>>> just fine: mptbase, mptscsih, mptspi
>>>
>>> mptspi depends on mptscsih, and both depend on mptbase, so if
>>> dependencies are handled automatically, declaring mptspi should be
>>> enough.
>>
>> Currently every module we add to the initrd is actually loaded, so we
>> have to think twice before adding more. In this case I’d rather punt.
>>
>> Danny and I started work a while back to load modules on demand à la
>> udev, so we could revisit that decision when this is implemented. Now,
>> if that only benefits VMWare, it’s low-priority for me.
>
> Understood and agreed. :-)
>
> Should this bug remain open as a reminder?

Yes, I think so.

Ludo’.
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