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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013 Free Software
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 Free Software
Foundation, Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
@@ -103,7 +103,9 @@ practice [that doesn't work at the
moment](http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17341).)
You can provide the subhurd with a network card by passing a `-f` option to
-`boot`.
+`boot`. For instance, if you have a second network card `/dev/eth1` in your
+host hurd, pass `-f eth0=/dev/eth1` to make it appear as device eth0 in the
+subhurd.
Now the subhurd should boot just like a normal Hurd started directly from GRUB,
finally presenting a login prompt. The `boot` program serves as proxy for the
@@ -190,6 +192,9 @@ characteristic thread counts.
ports from the mother hurd to the subhurd
<teythoon> so that we could pass in a port to the eth-multiplexer
<teythoon> or use like /hurd/remap as the root translator for the subhurd
+
+[[open_issues/virtualization/remap_root_translator]].
+
<braunr> eth-multiplexer was created exactly for that iirc,
<braunr> so it's probably already done somewhere