Questions on testing Debian GNU/Hurd

Maximus Minter <[email protected]> Sat, 7 Mar 2026 21:44:17 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.hurd.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
When entering the command as said in the installation section of the 
documentation 'kvm -m 2G -drive file=$(echo 
debian-hurd*.img),cache=writeback'

I get the following in the terminal. Is this normal? I am not a 
professional at using qemu.

"WARNING: Image format was not specified for 
'debian-hurd-amd64-20251105.img' and probing guessed raw.
          Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw 
images, write operations on block 0 will be restricted.
          Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions.
kvm: Could not access KVM kernel module: No such file or directory
kvm: failed to initialize kvm: No such file or directory
kvm: falling back to tcg"

Other errors I get when starting the Hurd is that the filesystem is not 
unmounted cleanly, and dos partition I/0 errors, unable to get block 
sizes, Cleaning up temporary files failed.

The biggest thing that keeps me from testing the Hurd right now is qemu 
giving these two errors in the vm. The keyboard and mouse work fine when 
starting the vm, but stop working all the sudden in a while. It usually 
stops working after typing root as the username. I could also try to get 
one more command in, but it my keyboard seems to stop working after 
that. My keyboard is fine out side of the vm.

kbd: queue full

mouse: queue full

Thank you for taking the time to read this email and trying to help me 
out. I am a bit new to the Hurd and qemu.