Re: [9fans] VirtualBox and Plan9

[Ramon de Vera <ramondevera@gmail.com>]

Thanks Preston, Thanks Eris,

I'll take the qemu approach then. I'd rather not start
patching/recompiling plan 9 kernels just yet. :-)

Thanks again,
Mon

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Eris Discordia
<eris.discordia@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have tried to boot a number of Plan 9 4e ISOs on a number of VirtualBox
> releases (even from before Sun acquired it). Just won't work. It will take
> someone who knows Plan 9 very well to debug it and find out exactly why it
> doesn't.
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> A problem with Virtual PC was recently solved, I remember, by patching the
> kernel. Nobody said if the patch did work or not probably because applying
> it and recompiling the kernel was too complicated a task for a novice. And
> that was with the ISO properly booting and a complete installation on the
> (virtual) disk. If the ISO doesn't boot and the installation system never
> begins I assume one will have to create a new ISO with the patched kernel as
> well--not something I can dream of doing.
>
> --On Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:50 PM -0600 Ramon de Vera
> <ramondevera@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Has anyone else tried grabbing the latest Plan9 ISO (from the website)
>> and installing it via VirtualBox v2.2 ? I got only as far as:
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>> kfs...<caret>
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>> And the whole thing just stalled and hung at that point, so I am
>> hoping that someone can point me to the wrong vbox  settings that I am
>> using.
>>
>> I am trying this from a Vista box. Please don't say go to a different
>> OS and try again. :-)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mon
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