Re: Running the Hurd in qemu possibilities

2020-09-16 Thread Ryan Jeffrey
The CD Netinst image at https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current-hurd-i386/iso-cd/debian-hurd-2019-i386-NETINST-1.iso always fails to connect to the internet for me. It errors out once it has to download information on the mirrors, no matter what mirror I set it to. The error is somet

Re: Running the Hurd in qemu possibilities

2020-09-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ryan, le mer. 16 sept. 2020 14:48:14 -0700, a ecrit: > I was never able to get the CD Netinst ISO to work properly. Ditto for the > pre-created images. How so? They have all been tested, so they are supposed to be working. If there is a bug with them, do report the actual error message etc. othe

Re: Running the Hurd in qemu possibilities

2020-09-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joshua Branson, le mer. 16 sept. 2020 17:35:49 -0400, a ecrit: > Joshua Branson writes: > > > Samuel Thibault writes: > > > >> Joshua Branson, le mer. 16 sept. 2020 07:35:03 -0400, a ecrit: > >>> #+BEGIN_SRC sh > >>> qemu-system-i386 --curses -enable-kvm --no-reboot \ > >>> -d

Re: Running the Hurd in qemu possibilities

2020-09-16 Thread Ryan
I was never able to get the CD Netinst ISO to work properly. Ditto for the pre-created images. This install ISO is the only one that works for me: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/latest/hurd-i386/dvd.iso I then create the QEMU image with qemu-img create hurd.img 15G. Install script

Re: Running the Hurd in qemu possibilities

2020-09-16 Thread Joshua Branson
Joshua Branson writes: > Samuel Thibault writes: > >> Joshua Branson, le mer. 16 sept. 2020 07:35:03 -0400, a ecrit: >>> #+BEGIN_SRC sh >>> qemu-system-i386 --curses -enable-kvm --no-reboot \ >>> -drive file=debian-hurd-20200731.img,cache=writeback -m >>> 1G \ >>>

Re: Running the Hurd in qemu possibilities

2020-09-16 Thread Joshua Branson
I use sway. I've swapped caps lock and control. I use "termite" as my terminal, which is wayland enabled... All that to say, I'll try to use the Hurd via ssh, since that is the recommended way to interact with the GNU/Hurd. Thanks! -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Running the Hurd in qemu possibilities

2020-09-16 Thread Joshua Branson
Yes sir! I use dvorak! -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Running the Hurd in qemu possibilities

2020-09-16 Thread Joshua Branson
Samuel Thibault writes: > Joshua Branson, le mer. 16 sept. 2020 07:35:03 -0400, a ecrit: >> #+BEGIN_SRC sh >> qemu-system-i386 --curses -enable-kvm --no-reboot \ >> -drive file=debian-hurd-20200731.img,cache=writeback -m 1G >> \ >> -net user,hostfwd=tcp:127.0

Re: Running the Hurd in qemu possibilities

2020-09-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
m7173...@gmail.com, le mer. 16 sept. 2020 11:40:52 -0700, a ecrit: > As a side, Debian doesn't have /sbin/ in the $PATH ? It does. > so one would need to enter > something like "$ sudo /sbin/ifup -a" to execute ifup sudo ifup --help works for me. > $ echo $PATH > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/

Re: Running the Hurd in qemu possibilities

2020-09-16 Thread m7173588
Using the the BASH commands in the README found here: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/latest/hurd-i386/README It is a QEMU image with a working Ethernet/Internet connection. (Debian 10 with virt-manager and qemu-kvm installed) $ wget http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/latest/hurd

Re: Running the Hurd in qemu possibilities

2020-09-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide, le mer. 16 sept. 2020 14:52:11 +0200, a ecrit: > Joshua Branson writes: > > > - and weird CAPS LOCK errors. Essentially I somehow enabled CAPS LOCK on > > the qemu image, > > and I could not un-CAPS LOCK. > > Do you by chance use a non-standard keyboard layout? I h

Re: Running the Hurd in qemu possibilities

2020-09-16 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
Joshua Branson writes: > - and weird CAPS LOCK errors. Essentially I somehow enabled CAPS LOCK on the > qemu image, > and I could not un-CAPS LOCK. Do you by chance use a non-standard keyboard layout? I had problems like these when I used Neo via xmodmap. Best wishes, Arne -- Unpolitisch

Re: Running the Hurd in qemu possibilities

2020-09-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joshua Branson, le mer. 16 sept. 2020 07:35:03 -0400, a ecrit: > #+BEGIN_SRC sh > qemu-system-i386 --curses -enable-kvm --no-reboot \ > -drive file=debian-hurd-20200731.img,cache=writeback -m 1G \ > -net user,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:-:22 > #+END_SRC Where did

Re: Running the Hurd in qemu possibilities

2020-09-16 Thread Joshua Branson
H. I did not try installing from the vm, because normally the vm image works for my purposes. Thanks for pointing that out. I may give that a try. -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Running the Hurd in qemu possibilities

2020-09-16 Thread Joshua Branson
Ok, so I'll go ahead and publish the video. At just wanted to make sure ya'll were ok with it. And most likely the "issues" I'm running into are just user-error. I just wanted to check. I downloaded the latest Hurd image from the Hurd guide: #+BEGIN_SRC sh $ wget http://people.debian.org/~st

Re: Running the Hurd in qemu possibilities

2020-09-16 Thread Almudena Garcia
How have you installed the VM? I usually install my VM using the Debian GNU/Hurd's iso image, from the installer. This installation process is a bit longer than simply taking the Qemu prebuilt image, but It gets good results for me. El mié., 16 sept. 2020 a las 2:52, Joshua Branson () escribió: >

Re: Running the Hurd in qemu possibilities

2020-09-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Joshua Branson, le mar. 15 sept. 2020 20:48:43 -0400, a ecrit: > What's our marketing strategy? Full truth > about the Hurd's short comings? Or highlighting its possibilities? It's Ok to tell about shortcomings. But for bugs that are transient or easily fixable, or simply unknown to main