For what its worth. My install on a real hardware was also extremely slow, but after i enabled dma it is very much usable. venti and everything I use virtualbox on several machines including a macbook white and and an old hp dc7700 and its also very much usable also. another thing to note is i am using erik's 9atom distro for all my installation.
There is also 9vx which i used before. If you only need the plan9 tools then plan9port is an easy way to get them. On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:14 AM, John Preston <gizmog...@gmail.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I've spent the past couple of days trying to get some form of P9 > installation up, but I've had a lot of trouble. > > The first thing I tried (and the installation that would be ideal for > me, if anyone can help) was installing on an ASUS Eee PC netbook. It > doesn't have a CD drive, and I don't have a USB CD drive, so I tried > dd-ing the ISO onto a USB stick under Linux, but this wouldn't boot. Any > ideas why? Does anyone have any experience with P9 USB installation media? > > Afterwards, I tried VirtualBox, which gave me the following error: > > panic: assert failed at 0xf018d652 > > I quickly moved on to QEMU, which worked but had ridiculously slow disk > throughput (the installation would have taken at least 3 hours). This is > on a Dell mini 10 netbook with an Intel Atom so it's bound to be slow, > but I've had much higher transfer speeds with other guest OSes. > > VMware Player (using configuration made with EasyVMX) gave me a black > screen when rio loaded, and Bochs worked but was even slower than QEMU. > Can anyone offer me any help with: > > 1. making USB installation media; > 2. speeding up QEMU or Bochs; or > 3. getting VirtualBox or VMware Player working? > > I haven't tried any pre-built images as I would very much like to go > through the installation process myself. > - -- > Yours Sincerely, > John Preston > > Please note, that this message may be signed and/or encrypted with PGP > (available from http://www.pgp.com/) or GPG (available from > http://www.gnupg.org/). You can locate my PGP/GPG Public Key on my > website at: > > http://geek.shell.la/~gizmoguy/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJNlNJyAAoJEPiuv4qVew8CaIEP/js1mj/smk5mkONNEvs/0D8w > xpqbP1YmT0aTBzrW+UdJcZX+UZLmR6+gX4ZQNoHiDEX0tlOkzJk087eh4/K1a/dD > NQXZzs+Y5aGmsY4TDgbESYM7qIlhyovu12str5PWndzzEqkz3biavjCvcOUklBte > 7c/dBhlAzr+hFdXK4Vek3X9L/UbhRMSnaaKWEvEhgtdPmPZUsuJWBILCdjHL2jSA > eNcztzpqj+DCcS42ldL1gIs/q5n+hQbgxEeNjyNJEyT9mUvD8TcplTFQ2IC/Y6Ms > W6xBQOsg6cjT44SjA1M3f2YSee+IW6Px2D2tPy6IXhPunqkckZrXZ0yDUffJxiJx > Mh20wOX5mLm+WbLIeDeD6KAV46qhopwh6/CUjxLdcuj39eqIgQfqSWgPDZq99H04 > +XjGWAVtqJ67G3Z5UJJYXBkCjpCMUIKRgMDC+7tay6FLQn2XmxOYc3YGdxF2rSFq > AiP0MdYRf7kL0G8+5qCCuniC0il2Nx3xhmMYqROfsU+LG7PWPw8XdhfXsckio0UL > BXG+8xqFXN/FG2OKy7qUQ8nOsBaEtvMgLBVk2J4CqQJeptTc6vId3wSpIxOiyQJR > 5oAKiZiRruXPkbJI5zn1xdDRVrBGkAF1a9T8BRjgpAv/Y2oqT+iR3mkqm2fLhIUV > OYgFluRDRXo/stICeohp > =9DFU > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
