[9fans] vmware hell

[9fans] vmware hell

[Ronald G. Minnich]

ok, my friend is booting plan 9 in vmware 4.5.2 using the vmware CD from
the web page.

It is hanging right after it prints
dev B0 port 1F0 blah blh


anything we should be looking for? Has anyone tried this on this vmware?

ron

Re: [9fans] vmware hell

[Sergey Reva]

Hello Ronald,

Friday, February 18, 2005, 12:36:09 AM, you wrote:
RGM> ok, my friend is booting plan 9 in vmware 4.5.2 using the vmware CD from
RGM> the web page.
RGM> It is hanging right after it prints
RGM> dev B0 port 1F0 blah blh
They use iso file or burned disk?
I used both variant, and all it work (vmware 4.0.5)... It's very
strange because previously often I get result as you describe?
Previously I get this result when use cdrom on virtual machine and it's be
empty.

But in case of using cdrom drive from host system try set 'Legacy emulation' check box.
--
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Re: [9fans] vmware hell

[Devon H. O'Dell]

On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 15:36 -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> ok, my friend is booting plan 9 in vmware 4.5.2 using the vmware CD from
> the web page.
>
> It is hanging right after it prints
> dev B0 port 1F0 blah blh
>
>
> anything we should be looking for? Has anyone tried this on this vmware?
>
> ron

Yes.

You need to remove ALL devices from the virtual machine other than the
HD, NIC and CD-ROM. (In fact, you might even need to remove the virtual
CD-ROM now that I think of it). Once you're done,  you should only have
the HD, RAM and NIC in the VM, I think.

Good luck :)

--Devon

Re: [9fans] vmware hell

[Catalin(ux aka Dino) BOIE]

> On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 15:36 -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
>> ok, my friend is booting plan 9 in vmware 4.5.2 using the vmware CD from
>> the web page.
>>
>> It is hanging right after it prints
>> dev B0 port 1F0 blah blh
>>
>>
>> anything we should be looking for? Has anyone tried this on this vmware?
>>
>> ron
>
> Yes.
>
> You need to remove ALL devices from the virtual machine other than the
> HD, NIC and CD-ROM. (In fact, you might even need to remove the virtual
> CD-ROM now that I think of it). Once you're done,  you should only have
> the HD, RAM and NIC in the VM, I think.
>
> Good luck :)

I had the same problem (under wmware and qemu).
When I removed the cdrom from vmware it worked.
Under qemu I _added_ a cdrom and it worked.

Hope it helps.
---
Catalin(ux aka Dino) BOIE
catab at deuroconsult.ro
http://kernel.umbrella.ro/

Re: [9fans] vmware hell

[Nicolas Beauchesne]

I had the same problem with Vmware like a month ago...

Try to strip down the vmware machine to it's bare essential,  no audio,
usb, etc. for the install, putting them back after the install.

Nick

Ronald G. Minnich wrote:

>ok, my friend is booting plan 9 in vmware 4.5.2 using the vmware CD from
>the web page.
>
>It is hanging right after it prints
>dev B0 port 1F0 blah blh
>
>
>anything we should be looking for? Has anyone tried this on this vmware?
>
>ron
>
>
>

Re: [9fans] vmware hell

[Tiit Lankots]

My ¢2 worth:

- The preinstalled image doesn't work under 4.5.2.
- Installing works.
- After install, remove the CD device and it boots, otherwise not*.
- Other devices doesn't seem to be important.

* I've done some debugging, but due to very limited time only got so far
as to pinpoint it to the fact that no 9fat partition is found. It seems
that the parttion search hangs somewhere indefinitely.

Re: [9fans] vmware hell

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Tiit Lankots wrote:

> My ¢2 worth:
> 
> - The preinstalled image doesn't work under 4.5.2.

I'm just going to try to get my friend to use Xen.

ron