Subject: Re: bug#63527: [PATCH 0/3] Initial attempt at rumpdisk support for the Hurd.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 19:20:14 +0200

Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <[email-masked]> skribis:

> When booting with pci-arbiter and rumpdisk and using 1024MB of memory for
> qemu, booting hangs, or seems to hang, at the end of the rumpdisk boot
> messages.  At least 1200MB is required, currently.
>
> * gnu/services/virtualization.scm (<hurd-vm-configuration>)[memory-size]: Bump
> to 2048.
> * gnu/system/examples/bare-hurd.tmpl: Suggest using 2048 here too.  Update
> example `guix system image' and "qemu" command lines too.

Sounds a bit fishy.  :-)

Does Debian resort to a similar workaround?

Ludo’.