Re: [PATCH v5 0/5 qemu] GNU/Hurd support

Damien Zammit <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:34:31 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.emulators.qemu.block,gmane.os.hurd.bugs,gmane.comp.emulators.qemu
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Hi Phil,

On 18/6/26 6:33 pm, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:

> On 8/2/26 06:59, Damien Zammit wrote:
>
>> ...
>> Executed qemu-system-{i386,x86_64} on GNU/Hurd x86_64 successfully.

> Could we get this configuration integrated in our CI to be sure
> it won't bitrot?
>
> See how we test OpenBSD or Haiku for example:
>
> tests/vm/Makefile.include:28:X86_IMAGES := freebsd netbsd openbsd
> haiku.x86_64

I took a quick look, it appears virtio-blk and virtio-net are both required
to automate the building of the test vm, but GNU/Hurd does not have drivers for these yet.

I can take another look at this when virtio is working in Hurd with rump framework.

Thanks,
Damien