Re: Qemu image with a working system

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Roland McGrath, le Mon 11 Oct 2010 15:13:51 -0700, a écrit :
> Thanks for providing that!

Well, there have been a few recent qemu images around lately.
You might prefer
http://dept-info.labri.fr/~thibault/tmp/debian-hurd-17042010-qemu.img.tar.gz
which is less recent but has less things installed and thus boot faster.

> But it made it to the login shell, so nicely
> done!  (Not that you can really now expect me to actually go and doing
> anything for Hurd after all these years...sorry.)

Great!

> I do see a lot of "kd_setleds1: unexpected state (1)" when using the
> VM console keyboard.

Yes, it's a known glitch in kvm which doesn't happen on real hardware.

> w shows 6 login instances on virtual consoles with an entertaining
> variety of inexplicable idle times, which correspond to the atime
> values of the /dev/tty[1-6] (underyling?) nodes

Yes, the idle time doesn't take reboots into account.

> The entire existence of the console server is so new to me that I
> have no idea which keystrokes switch the virtual consoles or if I'm
> even near being connected to that whole reality after logging in on
> /dev/console (hmm, I guess I'm not).

/dev/console is not the hurdish console, yes, it's just the mach
console.  To start the hurdish console, you can for instance run this
from /dev/console:

console -d pc_kbd -d vga -c /dev/vcs

> Is there a working dhcp client these days,

There is one IIRC, but I can't remember off-hand which precise package
to install and how to use it.

> or do I have to figure out which IP address on the virtual subnet
> virt-manager assigned me and just settrans -p /servers/socket/2 by
> hand?

That may be just simpler.

Samuel