From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 22:05:31 +0200 From: Steffen "Daode" Nurpmeso To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20131010210531.Im1lyzSGRPApU56jY5BCnnqR@dietcurd.local> References: <20131010170840.02c77c21@zinc.9fans.fr> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: s-nail v14.4.4-37-g6483787 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] VMware and 9atom Topicbox-Message-UUID: 85107514-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote: |> If you want to run Plan 9 on VirtualBox, you have to use either |> the 4.1 branch (for example 4.1.26) or 4.2.14 and later. | |I can confirm that standard Plan 9 runs on virtualbox 4.2.18 on MacOSX |(tried it just now) I have (had) no issue(s) with stock 9atom and 9front (2941.ddc4d868272b) ISOs on VirtualBox 4.2.16, Mac OS X SnowLeopard. (This is no "production use", though.) Fool that i am i did not trust that it really should be "Intel PRO/1000 MT Server (82545 EM)", but life would be too boring without some desperation. Aram H=C4=83v=C4=83rneanu wrote: |Why waste anyone's time instead of always denouncing VirtualBox... When using qemu from MacPorts (v1.6.0), then ?0[steffen@sherwood src]$ plaw = =20 USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME CO= MMAND steffen 73506 11.8 4.5 2990016 94728 s002 S+ 9:56pm 0:43.57 /o= pt/local/bin/qemu-system-i386 -hda VirtualBox VMs/9front/9front.qcow -boot = d steffen 73505 6.7 4.8 1113192 100228 ?? R 9:54pm 1:00.34 /A= pplications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/../Resources/VirtualBoxVM.app/Con= tents/MacOS/VirtualBoxVM --comment 9front --startvm 44dfa628-d2be-4391-8553= -23436299f705 --no-startvm-errormsgbox And i need to do ; aux/vga -m vga -l (But it's rather due to faulty initial settings; however, it's nonetheless fine in VirtualBox. I yet need to work on my qemu setup. Don't mind.) --steffen