Re: [9fans] recent plan9.iso on hosted kvm/qemu

["Stanley Lieber" <stanley.lieber@gmail.com>]

> On Sun Mar  6 22:33:33 EST 2011, stanley.lieber@gmail.com wrote:
>> > 9atom's 9load prints "%d e820 entries" on boot.  is that number 0?
>>
>> found 7 e8s0 entries
>>
>> Then it freezes.
>
> it's not the e820 code, then.  it's either falling over initializing the
> console, or it's falling over probing devices for the .ini file.
>
> after e820, 9load starts up the console and probes devices looking
> for a .ini file.
>
> i would think the odds are good that 9load has found an i/o port
> that should not be touched.  devices are probed in this order
> 	floppy. ether, cd, sd.
>
> i don't really have a kvm setup, but if it's possible, you might try
> removing devices (espeically ethernet devices) from a copy of 9load
> until you find something that boots, then add 'em back in till it doesn't.
>
> sounds tedious, no?  :-)

I'm perfectly willing. Two main problems at this point:

- I don't have immediate access to amd64 hardware to setup my own KVM/qemu.
I learned the hard way that KVM inside another qemu or VMware guest doesn't
work.
- Changing out the CD-ROM image on the hosted VPS requires sending an e-mail
to technical support and waiting up to 24 hours for a response. I've been told
allowing users to dynamically change CD-ROM images is not an option.

Jack:

If you reading this, do you want to try this with your cron-swapped floppy images?

-sl