From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: qemu issues (Re: [9fans] latest iso: venti issues
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:39:04 PDT."
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From: Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:56:08 -0700
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I spoke too soon.  After a pull I see the same symptom again.

> > some people on irc reported the same problem. I can reproduce it on qemu
> > with a normal install.
> > venti hangs on "sync..." after the 2nd boot.
> >
> > see:
> > http://9fans.net/archive/2007/09/254
> > http://9fans.net/archive/2007/09/266
> >
> > but here is no solution yet. :-(
>
> FWIW, I had seen the same problem earlier but everything
> seemed to work fine in a qemu image built from the Sep 22
> plan9.iso.bz2 (md5 = b0fb4bbd962ef73f32656b52586747b3).  The
> one difference I remember from before is that this image uses
> the 'qcow2' format and not 'raw'.
>
> One issue with plan9 on qemu is that on first reboot after an
> install on a brand new "disk", date reverts to an earlier
> time (Jan 1 2000?) and that confuses venti it seems.  So
> before I make *any* changes, I manually start the network +
> dns, and restart timesync after pointing it to an ntp server.