From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: john@jfloren.net (John Floren) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:08:23 -0800 Subject: [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions In-Reply-To: <4ED1D8D1.9070209@gmail.com> References: <20111127011436.7d7f3a91@orgizm.net> <4ED1D8D1.9070209@gmail.com> Message-ID: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 47ea5962-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Jens Staal 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