Re: [9fans] recent plan9.iso on hosted kvm/qemu

[Jack <jack@0x6a.com>]

On 3/3/2011 9:20 AM, Stanley Lieber wrote:
>> The --no-kvm-irqchip option on the command line may have solved the problem.
>>
> This apparently did not work with my host's setup. Same results observed when
> I halted and rebooted this VPS this morning.
>
> The host reports they are running KVM/qemu on Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04. I'm in
> the process of setting up a Linux machine so I can try to reproduce/solve the
> problem locally.
>
> -sl
>
>
>
Hello,

I'm one of the other people trying to get plan 9 on the same VPS host
provider.  I've gotten past that hang.  Some haphazard print statements
narrowed the hang down to the e820 init function in memory.c.  So to
work around, setting either *noe820scan=1 or *norealmode=1 in plan9.ini
will allow you to boot in that VPS without the aforementioned hang.
What the actual problem is, I don't know.  I'm fast approaching the end
of my abilities, so you'll have to pick it up from there.
I'll know tomorrow how my install goes.
I do know where exactly it does hang, but it's my bedtime.  I'll have to
drawterm into my cpu server and check my notes again to post where
exactly the boot hung.

Cheers,
Jack