doc: Make /dev/kvm note more visible.
Suggested by Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix system): Move note about /dev/kvm access to the beginning of the 'vm' action description.
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@anchor{guix system vm}
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Build a virtual machine that contains the operating system declared in
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@var{file}, and return a script to run that virtual machine (VM).
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@quotation Note
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The @code{vm} action and others below
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can use KVM support in the Linux-libre kernel. Specifically, if the
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machine has hardware virtualization support, the corresponding
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KVM kernel module should be loaded, and the @file{/dev/kvm} device node
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must exist and be readable and writable by the user and by the
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build users of the daemon (@pxref{Build Environment Setup}).
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@end quotation
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Arguments given to the script are passed to QEMU as in the example
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below, which enables networking and requests 1@tie{}GiB of RAM for the
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emulated machine:
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@end table
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@end table
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@quotation Note
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All the actions above, except @code{build} and @code{init},
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can use KVM support in the Linux-libre kernel. Specifically, if the
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machine has hardware virtualization support, the corresponding
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KVM kernel module should be loaded, and the @file{/dev/kvm} device node
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must exist and be readable and writable by the user and by the
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build users of the daemon (@pxref{Build Environment Setup}).
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@end quotation
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Once you have built, configured, re-configured, and re-re-configured
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your GuixSD installation, you may find it useful to list the operating
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system generations available on disk---and that you can choose from the
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