Re: Porting Debian Packages

[Svante Signell]

On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 21:30 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Tanguy LE CARROUR, le Tue 17 Jan 2012 21:20:24 +0100, a écrit :
> > Le mardi 17 janvier 2012, Svante Signell <svante.signell@telia.com> a écrit 
> > :
> > > On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 17:03 +0100, Tanguy LE CARROUR wrote:
> > >> Can I fix Hurd package build errors (simple ones like PATH_MAX) on a
> > >> Linux system?
> > > The best way to port packages using Linux is to install a Hurd image in
> > > a VM, like kvm or virtualbox. You need hardware support to get a
> > > reasonable speed. For more info see
> > > http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/
> > > and the README.txt there!
> > 
> > Thanks for pointing me to this how-to. I've got a working Hurd in qemu-kvm 
> > but
> > somehow I don't find it conveniant to "develop".
> 
> I usually telnet into my vm, it's more convenient that typing into the
> qemu window.

I normally ssh into the VM to get the correct keyboard layout, a
scrollbar, etc. In kvm/qemu ssh/telnet can be set up by port forwarding.