From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2dabc0cd0904212341u74b70fd6ubb5c4624ba144188@mail.gmail.com> References: <2dabc0cd0904212250y103794cbx79b91f5f1611d0a7@mail.gmail.com> <2dabc0cd0904212341u74b70fd6ubb5c4624ba144188@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:34:50 -0700 Message-ID: <3e1162e60904220734r700121eav65a4bc0a93c1a4e@mail.gmail.com> From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=00151750eeba875426046825aa97 Subject: Re: [9fans] VirtualBox and Plan9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ef135e94-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --00151750eeba875426046825aa97 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Ramon de Vera 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 > 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 > > 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 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 > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --00151750eeba875426046825aa97 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Ramon = de Vera <ramo= ndevera@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.
=A0


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 Virtual= Box
> releases (even from before Sun acquired it). Just won't work. It w= ill take
> someone who knows Plan 9 very well to debug it and find out exactly wh= y 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 appl= ying
> 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 syste= m never
> begins I assume one will have to create a new ISO with the patched ker= nel 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 webs= ite)
>> 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 =A0settings tha= t I am
>> using.
>>
>> I am trying this from a Vista box. Please don't say go to a di= fferent
>> OS and try again. :-)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mon
>>
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