From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:23:28 -0500 From: EC To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-id: <20060326162328.09ecd495@kodos> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] Installing Plan9 under vmware Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2226c8e2-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hello, I am currently trying to install Plan 9 under vmware. The host machine is linux x86, running the most recent version of vmware-server. I have set up the plan9 cdrom iso as sdD0, so it boots from that disc. I get to the "Plan 9 Startup Menu" and enter 1 to install from the cd. It appears to boot the kernel okay, I get messages about memory allocation, correct cpu, memory, and network card detection, and "kfs...version...time..." Then it gets to "init: starting /bin/rc" and stops. I have let the machine sit at that point for 5-10 minutes several times, but to no avail. I think the problem with "genrandom". Looking at process listing (^t ^t p), it seems to be taking up all the cpu time. After a couple minutes, I have: 2: genrandom pc f010032f dbgpc 0 running (running) ut 5527 st 0 bss 0 qpc 0 nl 0 nd 0 lpc f01634d7 pri 1 The ut field then stops increasing at 5527 and switches to "wakeme (wakeme)" after a few more minutes, but the plan 9 loading makes no further progress. The vmware processes are then idling. The vm has 256 MB of ram and the host is a 2 ghz p4 so there shouldn't be any resource problems. Perhaps vmware is translating the plan 9 system calls to linux's /dev/random, but it is not providing entropy data fast enough? This is my first time ever using this os, so please don't be too harsh if I am doing something completely bone-headed :). -- Sun:Mar:26:06 Eli C.