Re: boot hangs, corruption at every attempt

[Justus Winter]

Quoting Samuel Thibault (2015-04-01 13:25:27)
> Riccardo Mottola, le Wed 01 Apr 2015 13:20:05 +0200, a écrit :
> > using my HURD instance in VirtualBox shows it is extremely unreliable. It
> > almost always hangs at boot.

A also see the occasional hang at boot, not at this point though, but
either earlier on (happens only very rarely nowadays), or later
preventing the login prompt from showing up (I suspect a problem with
/hurd/term).

> Note: I don't recommend using VirtualBox.  It tends to implement hacks
> to make simulation faster at the expense of correctness.  Things work
> just fine with qemu/kvm/native.

Better for sure, I wouldn't say just fine.  The issue Riccardo
encounters here is the one we have the delay loop hack in
runsystem.sysv for :/

Justus