November 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM, "Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues" <[email protected] mailto:[email protected]?to=%22Johannes%20Schauer%20Marin%20Rodrigues%22%20%3Cjosch%40debian.org%3E > wrote:
> > Hi, > > Quoting Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues (2025-09-07 13:46:41) > > > > > Perfect. Next on my todo list is to fix img2pdf, then mmdebstrap, then > > sbuild > > and *then* I'll have time for this. > > > it is time. :) > > > > > That being said, I think we got to the bottom of the misunderstanding (I > > hope) and the next thing to do is for me to create a QEMU VM with hurd and > > try this out myself. As I said, since the mmdebstrap testsuite runs inside > > qemu, I could even add hurd tests to the mmdebstrap testsuite to avoid > > regressions in the future. > > > I was trying to set this up and am now stuck at the point where I want QEMU to > offer a directory from outside QEMU (Linux) to the system running inside QEMU > (Hurd). With a Linux guest, I would use this inside QEMU: > > mount -t 9p -o trans=virtio,access=any,msize=128k mmdebstrap /mnt > > But when I run this with hurd, I get: > > mount: mmdebstrap: filesystem type `9p' unknown > > I run QEMU with this option: > > -virtfs > local,id=mmdebstrap,path="$(pwd)/shared",security_model=none,mount_tag=mmdebstrap > > Does the plan9 filesystem work or is there a better way to achieve the same > thing with Hurd as the guest? > > Thanks! > > cheers, josch Weirdly enough, we do now have a WIP 9pfs translator. The Hurd needs to add support for virtio-9p. Then Linux could read/write the Hurd filesystem: https://hurd.ion.nu/hurd/translator/9pfs.html
