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From: Aaron Bieber <aaron@bolddaemon.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] 9front inside OpenBSD's vmm?
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 08:09:04 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87362wlny7.fsf@tal.tapenet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201002132619.GA1567@pestilenz.org>


Matthias Bauer writes:

> Hi,
> i tried to get 9front on vmm by first installing on qemu into a qcow2,
> then rebooted, edited plan9.ini to set  monitor=none and console=0 b115200.
> In qemu the image starts up nicely and gives me a shell. 
>
> With 
>  vmctl start -c 9front 
> the last thing printed is 
>  bootfile=9pc64
>  bootargs=local!/dev/sd00/fscache
>  monitor=none
>  boot
>
> And then       Silence.
>
> Searching the web suggests that several people succeeded. But how??

OpenBSD 6.7 (I assume you are running this version) has a few bugs that
9front exposes pretty quickly [1]. These bugs were recently corrected
(and will be in 6.8). You can also install without doing the qemu dance!

>
> Best regards
>
> Matthias

[1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=159122099822779&w=2


  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-02 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-02 13:26 Matthias Bauer
2020-10-02 14:09 ` Aaron Bieber [this message]
2020-10-02 15:24 ` [9front] " Julien Blanchard

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