From: john@jfloren.net (John Floren)
Subject: [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:08:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL4LZyjDzn4rPQjmYhRjVi+q_bbEdXhMiZ-enX+1qGL9-bfVxA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ED1D8D1.9070209@gmail.com>
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Jens Staal <staal1978 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/27/11 01:14, Ruben Schuller wrote:
>>
>> To throw my experiences in:
>>
>
> I just managed to install 9front in virtualbox on my Arch linux x86_64
> laptop (intel (Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2370 @ 1.73GHz), 2GiB RAM). I
> first tried with the Bell labs image which booted nicely from CD but after
> install, the boot from the virtual disk image failed. The "copy to disk"
> phase of the install took some time also here, but hardly hours.
>
> I think the critical setting to make it work in virtualbox was to set the
> IDE controller to PIIX3 and to uncheck "use host I/O cache". I was planning
> to try the 9atom sometime later (but now I am mostly playing with the system
> that does work).
>
>
I seem to remember a problem with booting Plan 9 in Virtualbox after
the install; you have to disable the CDROM device to make it boot. I
think it was Virtualbox.
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-27 7:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-22 15:39 Joel C. Salomon
2011-11-22 15:46 ` ron minnich
2011-11-22 15:56 ` Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
[not found] ` <CAL_gH73FUfzOdFg1HHMomr8_kubMwYvraXnkYUqQQ4hbzD33iw@mail.gmail.c>
2011-11-22 16:00 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-22 22:57 ` Joel C. Salomon
2011-11-22 23:04 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-22 23:21 ` ron minnich
2011-11-23 7:49 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-11-22 23:06 ` John Floren
2011-11-22 19:41 ` Jack Norton
2011-11-22 22:50 ` Joel C. Salomon
2011-11-22 23:00 ` Giacomo Tesio
2011-11-22 22:14 ` John Floren
2011-11-22 22:53 ` [9fans] Let's get VM configs onto the Wiki Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-11-22 22:58 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-22 23:12 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-11-22 23:22 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-11-22 23:22 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-11-22 23:37 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-11-22 23:33 ` andrew zerger
2011-11-24 21:16 ` Bakul Shah
2011-11-24 21:25 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-11-24 22:05 ` ron minnich
2011-11-24 22:28 ` Bakul Shah
2011-11-27 0:14 ` [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions Ruben Schuller
2011-11-27 6:29 ` Jens Staal
2011-11-27 7:08 ` John Floren [this message]
2011-11-27 9:18 ` Lucio De Re
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