Re: Qemu image with a working system

2010-10-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Fri 15 Oct 2010 10:09:33 +0200, a écrit : > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 03:13:51PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > > I started it up in a qemu-kvm VM, > > Careful there: People reported serious FS corruptions with KVM. Doesn't > happen with plain Qemu, VirtualBox, or Xen...

Re: Qemu image with a working system

2010-10-16 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 03:13:51PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > I started it up in a qemu-kvm VM, Careful there: People reported serious FS corruptions with KVM. Doesn't happen with plain Qemu, VirtualBox, or Xen... > It hung for a dubiously long time at "Starting MTA:" That's probably b

Re: Qemu image with a working system

2010-10-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Roland McGrath, le Mon 11 Oct 2010 15:13:51 -0700, a écrit : > Thanks for providing that! Well, there have been a few recent qemu images around lately. You might prefer http://dept-info.labri.fr/~thibault/tmp/debian-hurd-17042010-qemu.img.tar.gz which is less recent but has less things ins

Re: Qemu image with a working system

2010-10-11 Thread Roland McGrath
Thanks for providing that! I started it up in a qemu-kvm VM, and this is the first time in years I've actually had any kind of running Hurd. (It's pathetic for me, I know.) It hung for a dubiously long time at "Starting MTA:" and took nearly another minute to barf about something after I hit ^C t

Re: Qemu image with a working system

2010-10-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez, le Mon 11 Oct 2010 20:33:59 +, a écrit : > the command 'dd < /dev/zero > /mnt/mnt/foo bs=1M' fails because there is not > enough free space on the "disk". Err, yes, that's expected: dd will continue until it has filled the whole disk with zeroes. Then you can sync an