Good news: 9atom installs fine on virtualbox 4.0.10 (the latest) and most everything works Bad news: network access fails
Since DHCP failed I hardwired an IP address and tried pinging the gateway. tcpdump on the host shows that ARP request goes out and the gateway sends its ARP response but this response is never seen by plan9! Curiously, ether0/stats shows that packet receive count goes up as expected -- seems the driver is dropping received packets for some reason. FWIW, FreeBSD works fine with the *exact* same h/w emulation settings -- this seems to rule out the vbox logic. The virtual machine's network adapter in the `bridged' mode with the host's network adapter. I tried emulating AM79C73 as well as Intel Pro 1000/MT Desktop with the same symptom. This happens on both Linux and MacOS VBox with the same h/w emulation settings.
