Re: Can't create user account in virtual machine with guix system vm

[Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski]

Hi Hubert !
You have to edit your system definition to add a user. 
Sharing some files, even your home directory, is not the way to create users.
Cheers
Jérémy

Le 7 mars 2022 11:47:31 GMT+01:00, Hubert <contact@hubert-lombard.website> a 
écrit :
>Hello Guix!
>
>
>I have made a VM in which no user account seems to could created.
>
>The standard command for that:
>
>https://guix.gnu.org/fr/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-system.html#Invoking-guix-system
>
>$ guix system vm Test.scm --expose=$HOME --share=$HOME/tmp=/exchange
>
>And the vm starts running, but no way to add an user account:
>
>$ sudo /gnu/store/zrd2c9czm6fdqd33q7yx2695s2dgy9kl-run-vm.sh
>
>At the graphical login I typed 'root' and validated. This opened me a 
>privileged user session.  
>
>In the qemu console I typed: 'sendkey ctrl-alt-f1' [Enter]
>
>In tty2 virtual console, I typed 'passwd' for root, validated and 'passwd 
>hubert' confirming the password after typing it.
>
>But when I return to the login, either as a guest user or as my username, the 
>password does not succeed, returning me to the login.
>
>The vm starts more correctly by adding the options
>
>'-m 1024 -smp 2 -nic user,model=virtio-net-pci' 
>
>I can't remember why I needed to add these (familiar) options. Anyway, the 
>following launchs the vm:
>
>$ sudo /gnu/store/zrd2c9czm6fdqd33q7yx2695s2dgy9kl-run-vm.sh -m 1024 -smp 2 
>-nic user,model=virtio-net-pci
>
>Here again, I can only connect in a graphical session with root.
>
>Which doesn't surprise me too much, since the home directory is read-only.
>
>I don't know if there are ways to solve this case... Give rights to home ?...
>
>Thank you in advance if you have any suggestions for me :)
>
>
>Hubert
>