From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: stanley.lieber@gmail.com (Stanley Lieber)
Date: Wed,  9 Mar 2011 03:41:23 -0600
Subject: [9fans] recent plan9.iso on hosted kvm/qemu
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> I broke something bad.  Well, I don't think *I* did it but something is 
> wrong.  I can no longer boot my VPS at all.  As in, the VNC is refusing 
> connections (which means the VPS doesn't even begin to boot -- which 
> means it isn't my fault... probably).  I have no confirmation that the 
> VPS is running at all as the management console isn't connecting either...
> So I don't know what happened but hopefully they can work it out.

Ouch. Usually, failure to connect via VNC indicates the VPS may be powered
down. However, I don't think I've ever been locked out of the management
console.


> I was just about to try to boot without *norealmode=1 now that the 8139 
> NIC was in place.  I'd like to boot this thing without all those 
> workarounds (though it runs great -- well ran great...).

Our setups may not be precisely identical, but when I tried booting with
that NIC, without *noe820scan or *norealmode, I got the same freeze-ups
as before.


> All in all, I think they've got a working setup for Plan 9 hosting.  So 
> my current troubles aside, this is big news.

I'm certainly happy. Thanks for contributing you ideas and experiences.
I was very much stuck.

-sl