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From: David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9atom vs 9front
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:50:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130311205007.32aaf32f@zinc.9fans.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3c143a73cd213e624a3ba11068209288@hamnavoe.com>

> > I've been trying for about two days to get the stock Plan9 from Bell
> > Labs to install with Networking under Virtual Box
>
> Bell Labs Plan 9 and networking works well in virtualbox 3.1.8 using
> Am79C973 virtual ethernet adapter in bridged mode, chipset PIIX3
> selected and "Enable IO APIC" turned off.  (Maybe not the only usable
> settings but these work for me.)
>
> Some newer versions of virtualbox have been reported as problematic.
> You can search for "virtualbox old builds" on the web.

I agree with Richard and I can confirm Plan 9 works
fine in VirtualBox 4.1.24 (2012-12-19).

It can be downloaded here:

http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.24/

However, as Richard said, VirtualBox 4.2 is known
not to work with Plan 9 from Bell Labs.

--
David du Colombier



  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-11 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-11 16:22 Kyle Laracey
2013-03-11 16:36 ` erik quanstrom
2013-03-14 11:43   ` Kyle Laracey
2013-03-11 17:30 ` Richard Miller
2013-03-11 19:50   ` David du Colombier [this message]
2013-03-11 20:34     ` balaji
2013-03-11 20:36     ` Bakul Shah
2013-03-11 20:47       ` Matthew Veety
2013-03-11 20:56         ` Bakul Shah
2013-03-12  1:49       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2013-03-12 20:53         ` a
2013-03-12 20:55           ` erik quanstrom
2013-03-12 21:18             ` a
2013-03-14 11:43 ` Kyle Laracey
2013-03-14 13:05   ` hiro
2013-03-14 13:38     ` erik quanstrom
2013-03-14 13:49       ` Kurt H Maier
2013-03-14 15:58         ` [9fans] 9front Acme unresponsive to key presses Steffen Daode Nurpmeso
2013-03-14 16:41     ` [9fans] 9atom vs 9front Bakul Shah
2013-03-14 11:43 ` Kyle Laracey
2013-03-14 11:43 ` Kyle Laracey
2013-03-14 16:08   ` Matthew Veety
2013-03-14 19:46   ` Bakul Shah
2013-03-14 11:48 ` Kyle Laracey
2013-03-11 16:32 Kyle Laracey

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