From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sam ducksworth Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-3--255171241 Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:02:04 -0600 Message-Id: To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Subject: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8edd6428-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --Apple-Mail-3--255171241 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii FYI .. I successfully created a plan9 virtual machine using VirtualBox = 4.0 for Macintosh. The install only took a few minutes. It boots up fast = and feels pretty snappy.=20 --samd= --Apple-Mail-3--255171241 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii FYI .. I successfully created a plan9 virtual machine using VirtualBox 4.0 for Macintosh. The install only took a few minutes. It boots up fast and feels pretty snappy. 

--samd
--Apple-Mail-3--255171241-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <81a34be0c8ca1ffdd83681eb6672983d@quintile.net> From: "Steve Simon" Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:36:32 +0000 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8ee79934-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Is this a PPC mac or an Intel one? Qemu and plan9 on my G4 Powerbook is slow enough to be of little real use. -Steve From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) From: Robbin Johnson In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:52:50 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <5460224A-DE70-4486-917A-C3DBC74AAEFC@gmail.com> References: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8ef15230-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 How did you configure the video? ... I get a scrambled image and no rio = desktop. Robbin.= From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) From: Sam Ducksworth In-Reply-To: <81a34be0c8ca1ffdd83681eb6672983d@quintile.net> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:47:54 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: References: <81a34be0c8ca1ffdd83681eb6672983d@quintile.net> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8ef6e0d8-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 iMac with 2.66Ghz Intel Core i5 On Dec 30, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Steve Simon wrote: > Is this a PPC mac or an Intel one? > > Qemu and plan9 on my G4 Powerbook is > slow enough to be of little real use. > > -Steve > From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Ducksworth Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-4--248558555 Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:52:17 -0600 In-Reply-To: <5460224A-DE70-4486-917A-C3DBC74AAEFC@gmail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <5460224A-DE70-4486-917A-C3DBC74AAEFC@gmail.com> Message-Id: Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8efc03a6-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --Apple-Mail-4--248558555 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Here is how I setup my VM. Base Memory: 392MB Video Memory: 32MB IDE Primary Master (CD/DVD): (latest plan9 iso was mounted here ) IDE Primary Slave: Plan9.vdi(Normal, 2.00GB) Host Driver: CoreAudio Controller: ICH AC97 Adapter 1: Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (NAT) --samd I had to up the video memory for the VM to 32MB. On Dec 30, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Robbin Johnson wrote: > How did you configure the video? ... I get a scrambled image and no = rio desktop. >=20 > Robbin. --Apple-Mail-4--248558555 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Here is how I setup my VM.

Base Memory: 392MB
Video Memory: 32MB
IDE Primary Master (CD/DVD): (latest plan9 iso was mounted here )
IDE Primary Slave: Plan9.vdi(Normal, 2.00GB)
Host Driver: CoreAudio
Controller: ICH AC97
Adapter 1:
Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (NAT)

--samd


I had to up the video memory for the VM to 32MB.
On Dec 30, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Robbin Johnson wrote:

How did you configure the video? ... I get a scrambled image and no rio desktop.

Robbin.

--Apple-Mail-4--248558555-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <5460224A-DE70-4486-917A-C3DBC74AAEFC@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:47:36 +0800 Message-ID: From: Fernan Bolando To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016367faaa12e04170498abd3e6 Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8f013b14-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --0016367faaa12e04170498abd3e6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Weird i tried similar settings a few days ago and it didnt work. Can you post the vdi and hdd settings too? On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Sam Ducksworth wrote: > Here is how I setup my VM. > > Base Memory: 392MB > Video Memory: 32MB > IDE Primary Master (CD/DVD): (latest plan9 iso was mounted here ) > IDE Primary Slave: Plan9.vdi(Normal, 2.00GB) > Host Driver: CoreAudio > Controller: ICH AC97 > Adapter 1: > Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (NAT) > > --samd > > > I had to up the video memory for the VM to 32MB. > > On Dec 30, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Robbin Johnson wrote: > > How did you configure the video? ... I get a scrambled image and no rio > desktop. > > Robbin. > > > --0016367faaa12e04170498abd3e6 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Weird i tried similar settings a few days ago and it didnt work. Can you po= st the vdi and hdd =A0settings too?

On Fr= i, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Sam Ducksworth <sducksworth@gmail.com> wrote:<= br>
He= re is how I setup my VM.

Base Memory: 392MB
<= div> Video Memory: 32MB
IDE Primary Master (CD/DVD): (latest plan9 iso= was mounted here )
IDE Primary Slave: Plan9.vdi(Normal, 2.00GB)<= /div>
Host Driver: CoreAudio
Controller: ICH AC97
Adapter=A01:
Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (NAT)

--samd


I had to up the video memory for the VM to 32MB.

On Dec 30, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Robbin Johnson wrote:

How did you configure the video? ... I g= et a scrambled image and no rio desktop.

Robbin.


--0016367faaa12e04170498abd3e6-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <8735e13d7a9d86a2bd9f1183e435a8f9@bellsouth.net> To: fernanbolando@mailc.net, 9fans@9fans.net Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:58:07 -0500 From: blstuart@bellsouth.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8f93c0ba-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Weird i tried similar settings a few days ago and it didnt work. Can you > post the vdi and hdd settings too? I had some success yesterday, but more so with Erik's 9atom ISO than the one from the labs. It handled the VirtualBox disk emulation much better. Anyway, I ended up with a very similar configuration, but with the ISO on the secondary master and the fossil FS on the primary master (though I think it also worked the other way). I tried all three of the disk controller settings PIIX3, PIIX4, and ICH6, but none worked with the Labs' image. It looks like I used the ICH6 setting with 9atom. I ended up using the PIIX3 chipset, but mostly because that's what it was left on when I switched to 9atom. I expect it would work with PIIX4 as well--not sure about the ICH9. Toward the end of the day, though, I also got a VirtualBox instance to boot off of a real Plan9 file server as a diskless terminal...using IL to Ken's FS even :) This was with the Intel PRO/1000 MT Server in a bridged config. This also required the VirtualBox extensions to allow PXE booting from the Intel cards. As always, your mileage may vary... BLS > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Sam Ducksworth wrote: > >> Here is how I setup my VM. >> >> Base Memory: 392MB >> Video Memory: 32MB >> IDE Primary Master (CD/DVD): (latest plan9 iso was mounted here ) >> IDE Primary Slave: Plan9.vdi(Normal, 2.00GB) >> Host Driver: CoreAudio >> Controller: ICH AC97 >> Adapter 1: >> Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (NAT) >> >> --samd >> >> >> I had to up the video memory for the VM to 32MB. >> >> On Dec 30, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Robbin Johnson wrote: >> >> How did you configure the video? ... I get a scrambled image and no rio >> desktop. >> >> Robbin. >> >> >> From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8735e13d7a9d86a2bd9f1183e435a8f9@bellsouth.net> References: <8735e13d7a9d86a2bd9f1183e435a8f9@bellsouth.net> Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 19:53:06 +0800 Message-ID: From: Fernan Bolando To: blstuart@bellsouth.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: 9fans@9fans.net Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8faf1ad6-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 12:58 AM, wrote: >> Weird i tried similar settings a few days ago and it didnt work. Can you >> post the vdi and hdd =A0settings too? > > I had some success yesterday, but more so with Erik's 9atom > ISO than the one from the labs. =A0It handled the VirtualBox > disk emulation much better. =A0Anyway, I ended up with a > very similar configuration, but with the ISO on the secondary > master and the fossil FS on the primary master (though I think > it also worked the other way). =A0I tried all three of the disk > controller settings PIIX3, PIIX4, and ICH6, but none worked > with the Labs' image. =A0It looks like I used the =A0ICH6 setting > with 9atom. =A0I ended up using the PIIX3 chipset, but mostly > because that's what it was left on when I switched to 9atom. > I expect it would work with PIIX4 as well--not sure about the > ICH9. > > Toward the end of the day, though, I also got a VirtualBox > instance to boot off of a real Plan9 file server as a diskless > terminal...using IL to Ken's FS even :) =A0This was with the > Intel PRO/1000 MT Server in a bridged config. =A0This also > required the VirtualBox extensions to allow PXE booting > from the Intel cards. > > As always, your mileage may vary... I spent a few hours and investigated virtualbox 4.0 here is a summary latest official plan9 iso installed perfectly no network support. latest 9atom iso installed perfectly however after reboot it fails with the following errors MBR...PBS1...Bad Format or I/O error Press a key to reboot... reinstalling 9atom over the plan9.iso installation fixed everything, it's bootable and with netwrok support. thanks all From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 10:05:56 -0500 To: fernanbolando@mailc.net, 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <3f2eb323f2b062f44166dd869bfe0d5d@plug.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: <8735e13d7a9d86a2bd9f1183e435a8f9@bellsouth.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8fc434ca-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > MBR...PBS1...Bad Format or I/O error > Press a key to reboot... > > reinstalling 9atom over the plan9.iso installation fixed everything, > it's bootable and with netwrok support. that's quite wierd. can you reproduce this error? if so, can you try running fdisk and prep by hand and seeing if the output makes sense? also, one can compare the first sector of the disk with the mbr and the first sector of the plan 9 partition with pbs. they should be the same, modulo the bits that disk/mbr fiddle. - erik From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3f2eb323f2b062f44166dd869bfe0d5d@plug.quanstro.net> References: <8735e13d7a9d86a2bd9f1183e435a8f9@bellsouth.net> <3f2eb323f2b062f44166dd869bfe0d5d@plug.quanstro.net> Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 10:00:15 +0800 Message-ID: From: Fernan Bolando To: 9fans@9fans.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8fe8bae8-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 11:05 PM, erik quanstrom wro= te: >> MBR...PBS1...Bad Format or I/O error >> Press a key to reboot... >> >> reinstalling 9atom over the plan9.iso installation fixed everything, >> it's bootable and with netwrok support. > > that's quite wierd. =A0can you reproduce this error? I tried to do a fresh reinstall a few times, so in my case it's at least repeatable on a macbook. > > if so, can you try running fdisk and prep by hand > and seeing if the output makes sense? =A0also, one > can compare the first sector of the disk with the > mbr and the first sector of the plan 9 partition > with pbs. =A0they should be the same, modulo the > bits that disk/mbr fiddle. > you may need to give a least of commands to try as I am not sure how to do this in plan9. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 21:24:51 -0500 To: fernanbolando@mailc.net, 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <66b83b1464a6cf2e95daed4346386cd0@plug.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: <8735e13d7a9d86a2bd9f1183e435a8f9@bellsouth.net> <3f2eb323f2b062f44166dd869bfe0d5d@plug.quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8feecdac-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I tried to do a fresh reinstall a few times, so in my case it's at > least repeatable on > a macbook. your macbook. milage seems to vary. frustrating to not know on what. > > if so, can you try running fdisk and prep by hand > > and seeing if the output makes sense?  also, one > > can compare the first sector of the disk with the > > mbr and the first sector of the plan 9 partition > > with pbs.  they should be the same, modulo the > > bits that disk/mbr fiddle. > > > > you may need to give a least of commands to try as I am not sure > how to do this in plan9. start with disk/fdisk -p /dev/sd??/data disk/prep -p /dev/sd??/plan9 dd -count 1 /dev/sd??/plan9 -count 1 | md5sum dd -if plan9 -count 1 | strings > should see something like 3: Plan9.00 43: CYLINDRICALFAT16 438: Bad format or I/O error 463: Press a key to reboot... 488: 9LOAD 500: PBS2... you may need to open a new window to do this. - erik From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:26:21 +0000 Message-ID: From: a z To: 9fans@9fans.net Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016364c79490b3bbb049979b96f Subject: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9348d538-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --0016364c79490b3bbb049979b96f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > MBR...PBS1...Bad Format or I/O error > Press a key to reboot... I also had this issue with Openbox-ubuntu-core2duo-ich9/ahci-sata, although it was intermittent, sometimes it would barely work (painfully slowly) clea= r into the part where I was looking for a distro to copy. I dont mean just "painfully slowly," I mean, "glad I had something else to do," hours and hours. Since then I quit ubuntu for gentoo(<3) and quit openbox for qemu, s= o I have no related issue- or logs to share, just posting because I had a similiar issue in Openbox. Anyhow, aloha --=20 =E2=8E=BC=E2=8E=BA=E2=8E=BA=E2=94=9C@=E2=94=BC=E2=90=8A=E2=94=9C=E2=94=9C= =E2=89=A4-=E2=90=8D=E2=8E=BC=E2=90=8A=E2=96=92=E2=90=8D:/=E2=90=A4=E2=8E=BA= =E2=94=94=E2=90=8A/=E2=8E=BC=E2=90=A4=E2=8E=BA# --0016364c79490b3bbb049979b96f Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 
> MBR...PBS1...Bad Format or I/O error
> Press a key to reboo=
t...

I also had this issue with Openbox-ubuntu-core2duo-ich9/a= hci-sata, although it was intermittent, sometimes it would barely work (pai= nfully slowly) clear into the part where I was looking for a distro to copy= . I dont mean just "painfully slowly," I mean, "glad I had s= omething else to do," hours and hours. Since then I quit ubuntu for ge= ntoo(<3) and quit openbox for qemu, so I have no related issue- or logs = to share, just posting because I had a similiar issue in Openbox.

Anyhow, aloha

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--0016364c79490b3bbb049979b96f-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:42:17 +0800 Message-ID: From: Fernan Bolando To: rhoyerboat@gmail.com, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9352938e-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 4:26 PM, a z wrote: >> MBR...PBS1...Bad Format or I/O error >> Press a key to reboot... > > I also had this issue with Openbox-ubuntu-core2duo-ich9/ahci-sata, althou= gh > it was intermittent, sometimes it would barely work (painfully slowly) cl= ear > into the part where I was looking for a distro to copy. I dont mean just > "painfully slowly," I mean, "glad I had something else to do," hours and > hours. Since then I quit ubuntu for gentoo(<3) and quit openbox for qemu,= so > I have no related issue- or logs to share, just posting because I had a > similiar issue in Openbox. > > Anyhow, aloha > > -- > =E2=8E=BC=E2=8E=BA=E2=8E=BA=E2=94=9C@=E2=94=BC=E2=90=8A=E2=94=9C=E2=94=9C= =E2=89=A4-=E2=90=8D=E2=8E=BC=E2=90=8A=E2=96=92=E2=90=8D:/=E2=90=A4=E2=8E=BA= =E2=94=94=E2=90=8A/=E2=8E=BC=E2=90=A4=E2=8E=BA# > not sure I understand are you using qemu or virtualbox or real hardware? Using virtualbox. If you install the official plan9 iso first and then install 9atom over it will work. installing 9atom using an >1Gig disk image it works also. This is all using Virtualbox 4.0 on mac os x or windows xp so far virtualbox 4.0 has been running plan9 for me flawlessly.