> If you want to run Plan 9 on VirtualBox, you have to use either > the 4.1 branch (for example 4.1.26) or 4.2.14 and later.
I can confirm that standard Plan 9 runs on virtualbox 4.2.18 on MacOSX (tried it just now), but only after compiling and installing an up to date kernel. The kernel binaries in /n/sources/plan9/386 won't boot, and therefore I suspect the installation CD image won't either. I suggest it's time to build and push a new set of 386 kernels on sources.