Re: Some Hurd related thoughts from someone who has no right to talk

[Amos Jeffries]

On 09/06/18 04:53, Joshua Branson wrote:
> Amos Jeffries writes:
> 
>> On 08/06/18 04:58, Joshua Branson wrote:
>>>
>>> I would actually recommend that you just run the Hurd in qemu.  Most, if
>>> not all, of the main Hurd developers just run the Hurd inside qemu.
>>>
>>> Also a cool idea!  I believe I read somewhere that it possible to have
>>> the Hurd running in qemu, but make the X server run in Linux.  This is
>>> apparently a really stable way to run the Hurd.
>>>
>>> Also, maybe you and I could try to start up a GNU/Hurd hangout session.
>>> Kind of like the Emacs hangouts.
>>>
>>
>> Speaking of that. I tried to follow the instructions at
>> <https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running/qemu.html> yesterday. It
>> seems to be very much in need of updating.
> 
> Are you sure?  Which ones don't work?
> 

The section is talking about qemu, but as a newbie having installed the
qemu package (apt says successfully) the "kvm" command still will not
work.  It needs the qemu-kvm package specifically.

And most of the URLs mentioned are outdated, more updated ones seem to
be listed inside the README.



> I've never had a problem with the first two:
> $ wget http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/debian-hurd.img.tar.gz
> $ tar -xz < debian-hurd.img.tar.gz
> 

"HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request"

Location:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/latest/hurd-i386/debian-hurd.img.tar.gz

Samuel seems to only have a Hurd repo in his directory now. Not the
built images.


> I have had problems with the last command:
> 
> $ kvm -m 1G -drive cache=writeback,file=$(echo debian-hurd-*.img)
> 
> mainly that "kvm" is not the command you use.  I've always had to run
>   qemu-system-i386.
> 

The kvm command seemed to work fine once I moved to other documentation
about KVM instead of qemu had me uninstall qemu and install the qemu-kvm
package.


AYJ