Re: [9fans] recent plan9.iso on hosted kvm/qemu

["Stanley Lieber" <stanley.lieber@gmail.com>]

> I have plan9 running on a qemu installation, and I had a similiar problem
> installing it.
>
> The --no-kvm-irqchip option on the command line may have solved the problem.
>
>
> I also may have walked away from the machine for 6 hours only to return and
> find that it had installed,    .... only to tear down the ubuntu distro
> based VM and replace the thing with a gentoo kernel specifically for hosting
> kvm.
>
> The gentoo qemu + --no-kvm-irqchip  thing has definately kept the plan9.iso
> installation online. Here is my command-line, its miniscule compared to
> yours.
>
> qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm -net nic,macaddr=45:45:45:45:45:45 -net
> tap,ifname=9tap,script=no,downscript=no -vga std --no-kvm-irqchip -vnc:1
> -hda /home/kvm9/plan9.img -m 256 -daemonize

Thanks, I'll experiment with these options.


> Or perhaps this, --no-kqemu since this is BSD complaining about an invalid
> nvram checksum, other threads seem to indicate the CMOS layout error google
> search pops on BSD across softwares.
>
> http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1921

As far as I know, KVM/qemu is hosted on Linux. The dmesg in my previous e-mail
was OpenBSD booted on the same instance of KVM/qemu; primarily so I could
get an idea of what hardware KVM/qemu was presenting to the Plan 9 installer.

-sl