[9fans] Solicited VirtualBox submission (negative)

[9fans] Solicited VirtualBox submission (negative)

[Steffen Daode Nurpmeso]

Hello,
VirtualBox 4.2.6 on Mac OS X does *not* work with
  plan9.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data \
  'PLAN 9 - DEC 8 2012 04:00      '

Memory ranges: 128 - 1024 MB.
Chipset: PII3X with/out I/O APIC; ICH9.
With/out PAE/NX.  With/out hw-virt-acceleration.
Video memory: 8 - 128 MB with/out 3D acceleration.
Storage controller: PIIX[34], ICH6; with/out host cache.

It always enters an endless loop after the 'Plan 9' message
appears.

--steffen

Re: [9fans] Solicited VirtualBox submission (negative)

[David du Colombier]

> Hello,
> VirtualBox 4.2.6 on Mac OS X does *not* work with
>   plan9.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data \
>   'PLAN 9 - DEC 8 2012 04:00      '
>
> Memory ranges: 128 - 1024 MB.
> Chipset: PII3X with/out I/O APIC; ICH9.
> With/out PAE/NX.  With/out hw-virt-acceleration.
> Video memory: 8 - 128 MB with/out 3D acceleration.
> Storage controller: PIIX[34], ICH6; with/out host cache.
>
> It always enters an endless loop after the 'Plan 9' message
> appears.

As said earlier, Plan 9 is already known not to work
in VirtualBox 4.2. You should try VirtualBox 4.1.

--
David du Colombier

Re: [9fans] Solicited VirtualBox submission (negative)

[Aram Hăvărneanu]

No, really. You should try QEMU. I understand that newcomers might be
tempted to use VirtualBox because it worked well for them in the past,
but I see zero reason for us to recommend anything but QEMU while
actively discouraging VirtualBox.

-- 
Aram Hăvărneanu

[9fans] Yes, 4.1.24 works (Was: Re: Solicited VirtualBox submission (negative))

[Steffen Daode Nurpmeso]

David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com> wrote:
 |> Hello,
 |> VirtualBox 4.2.6 on Mac OS X does *not* work with
 |
 |As said earlier, Plan 9 is already known not to work
 |in VirtualBox 4.2. You should try VirtualBox 4.1.

Indeed, and i reinstalled 4.1.24 in favour of 4.2.6 and booted the
live ISO just a moment ago successfully.

 |-- 
 |David du Colombier

--steffen

Re: [9fans] Solicited VirtualBox submission (negative)

[Steffen Daode Nurpmeso]

Aram Hăvărneanu <aram.h@mgk.ro> wrote:
 |No, really. You should try QEMU. I understand that newcomers might be
 |tempted to use VirtualBox because it worked well for them in the past,
 |but I see zero reason for us to recommend anything but QEMU while
 |actively discouraging VirtualBox.

Does QEMU run on Mac OS X at all?
And.. not really newcomer, i'm a BSD/vim/keyboard guy... but was
pointed to and am interested in the Unicode/Text capabilities of
Plan9, and stumbled over a rather impressive Acme video tutorial
when looking around for more background on that (and also found
mk-with-libs).
glenda is sweet!
And of course, everything is a file(system) etc., sounds Unix.

 |-- 
 |Aram Hăvărneanu

--steffen

Re: [9fans] Solicited VirtualBox submission (negative)

[Aram Hăvărneanu]

> Does QEMU run on Mac OS X at all?

Sure.

-- 
Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] Solicited VirtualBox submission (negative)

[Kyle Laracey]

On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 11:04:03 AM UTC-4, Steffen "Daode" Nurpmeso wrote:
> Hello,
>
> VirtualBox 4.2.6 on Mac OS X does *not* work with
>
>   plan9.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data \
>
>   'PLAN 9 - DEC 8 2012 04:00      '
>
>
>
> Memory ranges: 128 - 1024 MB.
>
> Chipset: PII3X with/out I/O APIC; ICH9.
>
> With/out PAE/NX.  With/out hw-virt-acceleration.
>
> Video memory: 8 - 128 MB with/out 3D acceleration.
>
> Storage controller: PIIX[34], ICH6; with/out host cache.
>
>
>
> It always enters an endless loop after the 'Plan 9' message
>
> appears.
>
>
>
> --steffen

I can confirm. On 4.2.8, it hangs after the 'Plan 9' message.

Re: [9fans] Solicited VirtualBox submission (negative)

[Steffen Daode Nurpmeso]

Aram Hăvărneanu <aram.h@mgk.ro> wrote:
 |> Does QEMU run on Mac OS X at all?
 |
 |Sure.

I never got it compiled; i tried again and failed even after light
configure hacking.  But really, i'm happy with VirtualBox and even
got Plan9 installed in the meanwhile; first made the big too disk
(DOS partition that is), the second try failed to install -- at
75% i switched off and went online on the host, when i switched
back i got an endless "I/O error"s read failed loop still at 75%,
but when i reinstalled on top of that failed one turned out to be
an installation-continuation instead (only hitted RETURN and yet
installed data was recognized), and this time it finished just
fine!

 |Aram Hăvărneanu

--steffen