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+I’m currently preparing a qemu image for the Hurd which allows testing the capabilities of the Hurd with as little effort as possible. 
+
+**Work in progress. These are my in-development notes.**
+
+For that I want to use: 
+
+* An up to date debian image (no longer online, but I have a copy here). 
+* My [Hurd Intro](http://bitbucket.org/ArneBab/hurd_intro), 
+* Translators from [hurd-extras](http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/) and the [incubator](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/), and naturally
+* a lot of apt-get update; apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade :) (all worked flawlessly). 
+
+## Working
+
+### Generally
+
+    # ssh with public key
+    apt-get install random-egd
+    ssh-keygen 
+    
+    # build tools
+    apt-get install build-essential
+
+### StoreIO
+
+    # mount an iso image
+    mount foo.iso bar -t iso9660fs
+    # see myfile as device
+    settrans foo /hurd/storeio myfile
+    # so that means I can pack a complete chroot (300MB) into a file with storeio and ext2fs — giselher
+    
+    # nfs mount anywhere (TODO: check this with antrik)
+    mount server:/home /home -t nfs
+    settrans /home /hurd/nfs server:/home
+
+## In Progress
+
+### Hurdextras
+
+    hg clone <hurdextras repo>
+
+### httpfs
+
+    # pkg-config is needed to avoid “PKG_CHECK_MODULES syntax error near unexpected token `HTTPFS,'”
+    # pkg-config must be installed before you run autoreconf.
+    apt-get install autoconf autoconf-archive libxml2-dev pkg-config
+    autoreconf -i -f
+    ./configure
+    make
+    make install
+    
+    settrans -ac gnu /usr/local/httpfs www.gnu.org/
+    # (breaks, because libxml2 needs pthreads → work to do.)
+    # (what we need: pthreads in translators. → see the [work of Barry](https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?func=detailitem&item_id=5487))
+    # check: for i in `objdump -x /usr/local/bin/httpfs |grep NEEDED| sed s/.*NEEDED//`; do echo $i; objdump -x /usr/lib/$i | grep pthread; objdump -x /lib/$i | grep pthread; done
+
+### Tarfs
+
+    apt-get install zip libz-dev libbz2-dev
+    hg clone http://bitbucket.org/ArneBab/hurd-tarfs tarfs
+    cd tarfs
+    make
+    make install
+    # works, though with warnings.
+    
+    settrans -ca new /hurd/tarfs -cz test/intro.tar.gz
+    cp repos/intro/README new/
+    settrans -g new
+    tar -tf test/intro.tar.gz
+    # works
+    
+    tar -cf test/intro.tar repos/intro 
+    settrans -ac t /hurd/tarfs test/intro.tar
+    # (settrans: /hurd/tarfs: Translator died :( ⇒ more work to do )
+
+### nsmux
+
+    git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/hurd/incubator.git nsmux
+    cd nsmux/
+    git checkout -b nsmux origin/nsmux
+
+    apt-get install autoconf autoconf-archive
+    autoreconf -i -f
+    ./configure
+    make
+    make install
+    
+    cd ../..
+    mkdir test
+    settrans -c test2 /usr/local/bin/nsmux test
+    tar -cf test/intro.tar repos/hurd_intro 
+    ls test2/intro.tar,,tarfs
+
+### clisp
+
+    git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/hurd/incubator.git clisp
+    cd clisp/
+    git checkout -b clisp origin/clisp
+
+    apt-get install texi2html
+    make
+    make install
+    
+
+### debugging Translators
+
+    rpctrace