From: Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] VirtualBox and Plan9
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:30:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AEF7D6DDF7CD011850DD2A0A@[192.168.1.2]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2dabc0cd0904212250y103794cbx79b91f5f1611d0a7@mail.gmail.com>
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
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-22 5:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-22 5:50 Ramon de Vera
2009-04-22 5:30 ` Eris Discordia [this message]
2009-04-22 6:12 ` Preston Mays
[not found] ` <AEF7D6DDF7CD011850DD2A0A@192.168.1.2>
2009-04-22 6:41 ` Ramon de Vera
2009-04-22 14:34 ` David Leimbach
2009-04-22 6:56 ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-04-22 7:03 ` Gabriel Díaz López de la Llave
2009-04-22 7:03 ` Ramon de Vera
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