Re: sbuild on hurd-amd64...

June 17, 2026 at 7:38 AM, "Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues" <josch@debia=
n.org mailto:[email protected]?to=3D%22Johannes%20Schauer%20Marin%20Rodrig=
ues%22%20%3Cjosch%40debian.org%3E > wrote:



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>=20Hi,
>=20
>=20thank you for chiming in!
>=20
>=20Quoting [email protected] (2026-06-17 12:53:20)
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>=20>=20
>=20> Does the plan9 filesystem work or is there a better way to achieve =
the same
> >  thing with Hurd as the guest?
> >=20=20
>=20>  Thanks!
> >=20=20
>=20>  cheers, josch
> >=20=20
>=20>  Weirdly enough, we do now have a WIP 9pfs translator. The Hurd nee=
ds to add
> >  support for virtio-9p. Then Linux could read/write the Hurd filesyst=
em:
> >=20=20
>=20>  https://hurd.ion.nu/hurd/translator/9pfs.html
> >=20
>=20Okay, this is good news and means that we are one step further. But I=
 should
> probably not be holding my breath that support for virtio is added any =
time
> soon?

I do not know of any concrete plans to add virtio support anytime soon.  =
Contribution
welcome.  :)

> Currently, my plan is to just copy everything into the guest when I cre=
ate the
> machine image. That will waste time and space but it should work for no=
w...

I believe this is what guix currently does when they launch a childhurd.=
=20=20

>=20Thanks!
>=20
>=20cheers, josch
>