[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] There is a QEMU image with [[Debian GNU/Hurd|debian]] pre-installed available as . Usage: * Install qemu-kvm via your distribution's package manager (it might just be named qemu) * Download the debian image: $ wget https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/latest/hurd-i386/debian-hurd.img.tar.gz * Unpack it: $ tar -xz < debian-hurd.img.tar.gz * Run it: $ kvm -m 1G -drive cache=writeback,file=$(echo debian-hurd-*.img) -net user,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:2222-:22 * Login as root (the root password is empty) * Set up a root password with passwd Optionally you may use `--curses` to keep your keyboard layout. If need be modprobe kvm_amd, kvm intel and kvm to get kvm support (which is much, much faster). Note that if you do not have a command named `kvm`, you can try something across the lines of: $ qemu-system-i386 --enable-kvm -drive cche=writeback,file=$(echo debian-hurd-*.img) -net user,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:2222-:22 Or, if your machine does not allow for KVM acceleration, omit `--enable-kvm` from the command. Please also read the README file: If you have troubles extracting the image, you can use the [gz version](https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/latest/hurd-i386/debian-hurd.img.gz), the [zip version](https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/latest/hurd-i386/debian-hurd.img.zip), or even the [plain version](https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/latest/hurd-i386/debian-hurd.img) (5GiB!) See the discussion about [[hurd/running/qemu/writeback_caching]]. [[!if test="destpage(hurd/running/qemu)" then="" else="For more detailed instructions, please see the [[hurd/running/QEMU]] page."]]