From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <2dabc0cd0904212250y103794cbx79b91f5f1611d0a7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:41:37 -0600 Message-ID: <2dabc0cd0904212341u74b70fd6ubb5c4624ba144188@mail.gmail.com> From: Ramon de Vera To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] VirtualBox and Plan9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: eef74e0c-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 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 tak= e > someone who knows Plan 9 very well to debug it and find out exactly why i= t > doesn't. > > A problem with Virtual PC was recently solved, I remember, by patching th= e > kernel. Nobody said if the patch did work or not probably because applyin= g > it and recompiling the kernel was too complicated a task for a novice. An= d > 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 > wrote: > >> 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: >> >> kfs... >> >> And the whole thing just stalled and hung at that point, so I am >> hoping that someone can point me to the wrong vbox =A0settings 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 >> > > > > > >