Re: [9fans] VirtualBox and Plan9

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Ramon de Vera <ramondevera@gmail.com>wrote:

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


Compiling kernels is pretty simple on plan 9.


>
>
> 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.
> >
> > 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:
> >
> >> 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...<caret>
> >>
> >> 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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