Hi, On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 09:05:40AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> The test machine is a 4x 64 bit AMD with ethernet on mainboard. > >From /var/log/messages of Debian 5: > r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK-NAPI loaded > eth0: RTL8168c/8111c at 0xffffc20000630000, [...] If the network adapter is supported by Linux 2.6.29, it should be possible to get it working with the DDE userspace driver framework. This is a bit non-trivial to set up though... SATA is more of a problem. Also, first thing you should use the installer CD to test whether Mach even boots on your machine... Otherwise there is obviously no chance of running the Hurd natively :-) > Can this be circumvented by running Hurd on a virtual machine ? Yes, a VM can be used to work around the ethernet problem. It can also be used to work around the SATA problem for the system disk. However, you still need a way to access the actual burner... I don't really know, but I rather doubt that any VM solution actually exposes the host system's burner to the guest system as an ATAPI device connected to a virtual PATA controller... If your machine supports IO virtualisation (IIRC AMD simply calls that IOMMU), you *might* be able to use a real PATA burner, and give the guest system direct access to the the PATA controller it is connected to. Don't know though whether this really works... -antrik-
