From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:44:45 +0200 From: "Catalin(ux aka Dino) BOIE" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] vmware hell In-Reply-To: <1108712559.3950.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <1108712559.3950.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0cb9197a-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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/