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From: Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com>
Date: Tue,  4 Aug 2009 09:24:59 -0700
Message-Id: <20090804162459.C18335B76@mail.bitblocks.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Parallels Vesa driver question
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On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:25:53 PDT David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Bakul Shah
> <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com<bakul%2Bplan9@bitblocks.com>
> > wrote:
	...
> > I think vbox devices and recompiler are based on qemu but I
> > don't really know.  IIRC early qemu did seem to have similar
> > issues with plan9.
> >
> > Since other OSes run pretty well, my guess is something plan9
> > depends on heavily has to be emulated (due to memory layout
> > assumptions or something).
> >
>
> I've also tried Minix and QNX and both have problems on Virtual Box.  Which
> other OSes did you try?  Linux and windows work but they're like necessary
> to even claim you can do anything virtualization wise.
>
> Dave

Just FreeBSD, linux and Windows.

Anyway, a couple of areas to look into, if you want plan9 on
vbox: try changing the memory layout of plan9 or figure out
what qemu did to make plan9 run well and apply that change to
vbox.