docs: Explain how to login into built vm

wip/yesman
Markus Hauck 6 years ago
parent 93aa83deb4
commit 0525e82392
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      nixos/doc/manual/installation/changing-config.xml

@ -70,9 +70,21 @@ $ ./result/bin/run-*-vm
</screen>
The VM does not have any data from your host system, so your existing
user accounts and home directories will not be available. You can
forward ports on the host to the guest. For instance, the following
will forward host port 2222 to guest port 22 (SSH):
user accounts and home directories will not be available unless you
have set <literal>mutableUsers = false</literal>. Another way is to
temporarily add the following to your configuration:
<screen>
users.extraUsers.your-user.initialPassword = "test"
</screen>
<emphasis>Important:</emphasis> delete the $hostname.qcow2 file if you
have started the virtual machine at least once without the right
users, otherwise the changes will not get picked up.
You can forward ports on the host to the guest. For
instance, the following will forward host port 2222 to guest port 22
(SSH):
<screen>
$ QEMU_NET_OPTS="hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22" ./result/bin/run-*-vm

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