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 And most of the URLs mentioned are outdated, more updated ones seem to be listed inside the README.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