On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 03:05 +0000, David Hiran Watson wrote: > Hey all, I've been following this thread because I am also interested > in installing Debian Hurd as a vm. I was considering it last year but > held off. Recently I upgraded my computer to AMD Phenom II x6 / Win 7 > Pro. I plan to reinstall VirtualBox. > > What method would you recommend I use install Hurd? I can install > Debian Linux as a vm, and use crosshurd. Or should I use the latest > i386 ISO?
I have installed (32bit) Debian GNU/Hurd under Qemu, using the Debian Installer in mini.iso made by Jeremie Koenig, http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/hurd-installer/ A version with an updated Debian installer is created by Samuel Thibault, http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/ Other alternatives are Virtualbox and Xen, but I have not tried them yet. The three buildds are running Xen. > Also would Debian Hurd benefit from hardware virtualization turned on > (AMD-V)? Yes, I have one Intel box and one AMD box with hardware support, giving reasonable speeds under qemu-kvm. Also X-windows works, after some tweaking (and ssh, and emacs, ...). (I'm working on a short todo to contribute to the Debian/Hurd page about qemu.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
