From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:30:19 +0100 From: Eris Discordia To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <2dabc0cd0904212250y103794cbx79b91f5f1611d0a7@mail.gmail.com> References: <2dabc0cd0904212250y103794cbx79b91f5f1611d0a7@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] VirtualBox and Plan9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: eee8ef7e-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 >