Re: Porting Debian Packages

[Anatoly A. Kazantsev]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:22:28 +0100
Svante Signell <svante.signell@telia.com> wrote:

> 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.

Also, it's possible to use sshfs. It allows to edit files on VM directly
with a preffered editor :-) 

-- 
Regards,
Anatoly

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