Re: [9fans] Plan 9 won't boot on Xen 8.0

[Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>]

Thanks for your response, and apologies for the delay in replying.
I was thinking if it would also be possible to migrate the current
Plan 9 setup that is used with Xen to Qemu.
Thanks.

On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 10:53 AM Alexander Sychev <santucco@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Xen now looks for a section with name '__xen_guest' starting from a second section.
> A simple workaround is to make two '__xen_guest' sections (with a small patch of xenelf.c):
>
> diff -r xen/mkfile xen2/mkfile
> 105c107,108
> <       ./xenelf.$cputype $target.elf $target __xen_guest ''$XENELF''
> ---
> >       ./xenelf.$cputype $target.elf $target.elf2 __xen_guest ''$XENELF''
> >       ./xenelf.$cputype $target.elf2 $target __xen_guest ''$XENELF''
> diff -r xen/xenelf.c xen2/xenelf.c
> 131c131,132
> <       ns = 0; //GETS(&e.shnum);
> ---
> >       ns = GETS(&e.shnum);
>
> I run it on Xen 4.10.3
>
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 9:25 AM Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I had Plan 9 running on Xen 7.5. After upgrading to Xen 8.0 Plan 9
>> won't boot any more.
>> I get a 'No bootable device' message displayed.
>>
>> The system was previously setup by someone else.
>> If I can, I would like to try and make it run on Xen 8.0.
>>
>> Any tips would be much appreciated.
>>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>   Alexander