On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 21:30 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Tanguy LE CARROUR, le Tue 17 Jan 2012 21:20:24 +0100, a écrit : > > Le mardi 17 janvier 2012, Svante Signell <svante.sign...@telia.com> a écrit > > : > > > On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 17:03 +0100, Tanguy LE CARROUR wrote: > > >> Can I fix Hurd package build errors (simple ones like PATH_MAX) on a > > >> Linux system? > > > The best way to port packages using Linux is to install a Hurd image in > > > a VM, like kvm or virtualbox. You need hardware support to get a > > > reasonable speed. For more info see > > > http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/ > > > and the README.txt there! > > > > Thanks for pointing me to this how-to. I've got a working Hurd in qemu-kvm > > but > > somehow I don't find it conveniant to "develop". > > I usually telnet into my vm, it's more convenient that typing into the > qemu window.
I normally ssh into the VM to get the correct keyboard layout, a scrollbar, etc. In kvm/qemu ssh/telnet can be set up by port forwarding.