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Date: Wed,  9 Oct 2013 15:15:44 -0700
From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
Message-Id: <20131009221544.99574B82A@mail.bitblocks.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] VMware and 9atom
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On Wed, 09 Oct 2013 14:02:32 PDT Deepak Chawla <dchawla@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In the past, I've had problems installing 9atom/plan9 on the latest version
> of VirtualBox, but I could install it on a VM from an older (4.1.24?) rev
> of VirtualBox. I have since updated to the latest VirtualBox and my VMs
> have continued to work. I haven't tried an install on a new VM since I
> updated.

I can confirm that 4.1.24 works for plan9 and 9atom. Newer
versions are usually not worth upgrading to. And if you want
to, it is a good idea to keep the last working version (and
its installable distribution image + extension pack) around.