Re: It's really easy to use the Hurd to read mailing lists

[Ricardo Wurmus]

>> Already did it a long ago, but got no response, see bug#50477.
>
> Thank you.  This bug report doesn’t seem to be about Guix System being
> “unstable” with the Hurd.  It is just about ping not working inside
> qemu, which is a frequently encountered problem.  See also the Hurd
> wiki:
>
>   […] note that ping doesn't work with QEMU's user-networking stack.
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running/qemu.html

The Guix manual also warns against using ping to test networking:

  The default run-vm.sh script that is returned by an invocation of guix
  system vm does not add a -nic user flag by default. To get network
  access from within the vm add the (dhcp-client-service) to your system
  definition and start the VM using $(guix system vm config.scm) -nic
  user. An important caveat of using -nic user for networking is that
  ping will not work, because it uses the ICMP protocol. You’ll have to
  use a different command to check for network connectivity, for example
  guix download.

  https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Running-Guix-in-a-VM.html

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Ricardo