hurd vm images don't seem to be booting

[Brent W. Baccala]

Hi -

I've downloaded Hurd images from these two locations:

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/hurd-i386/debian-hurd.img.tar.gz

http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/debian-hurd.img.tar.gz

and I've had the same problem with both.  I can't get the grub boot menu to load with this VM invocation:

qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -nographic -drive file=debian-hurd-20171101.img,format=raw

which I think is pretty standard.  My own VM images continue to work.

Is something broken in these public downloads, or am I missing a step somehow?

    agape

    brent