We are thrilled to announce that two Debian GNU/Hurd virtual machines are available in Japan: cfarm431 (hurd-amd64) and cfarm432 (hurd-i386). cfarm431 is allocated 1 core + 16GB memory, while cfarm432 is allocated 4 cores + 4GB memory. Each of them is allocated 500GB /home storage, on the same SSDs as cfarm420~422 and 430.

cfarm431 (hurd-amd64) does not yet have success on booting the SMP kernel, but while cfarm432 (hurd-i386) does successfully boot the SMP kernel, it only recognizes 2GB of memory. Other bugs and limitations from GNU Hurd also affect them. IPv6 does not work for now.

Note that these two VMs are highly experimental and may crash frequently. There is a simple script to probe them and reset the VMs from the hypervisor if necessary, is run every hour at *:15.

Thanks to Luke Yasuda for providing and setting up these experimental systems.