Thanks Preston, Thanks Eris, I'll take the qemu approach then. I'd rather not start patching/recompiling plan 9 kernels just yet. :-)
Thanks again, Mon On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Eris Discordia <eris.discor...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have tried to boot a number of Plan 9 4e ISOs on a number of VirtualBox > releases (even from before Sun acquired it). Just won't work. It will take > someone who knows Plan 9 very well to debug it and find out exactly why it > doesn't. > > A problem with Virtual PC was recently solved, I remember, by patching the > kernel. Nobody said if the patch did work or not probably because applying > it and recompiling the kernel was too complicated a task for a novice. And > that was with the ISO properly booting and a complete installation on the > (virtual) disk. If the ISO doesn't boot and the installation system never > begins I assume one will have to create a new ISO with the patched kernel as > well--not something I can dream of doing. > > --On Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:50 PM -0600 Ramon de Vera > <ramondev...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Has anyone else tried grabbing the latest Plan9 ISO (from the website) >> and installing it via VirtualBox v2.2 ? I got only as far as: >> >> kfs...<caret> >> >> And the whole thing just stalled and hung at that point, so I am >> hoping that someone can point me to the wrong vbox settings that I am >> using. >> >> I am trying this from a Vista box. Please don't say go to a different >> OS and try again. :-) >> >> Regards, >> Mon >> > > > > > >
