[[!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 distros packages. * 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` # Optionally 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). * Login as root (the root password is empty) * set up a root password with passwd Please also read the README file: If you have troubles extracting the image, you can use the gz version , the zip version , or even the plain version (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."]]