Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2021-11-21 Thread Conor Williams
hi adr, did you get this going... i have a multitude wayz of running different flavas of Plan 9 --- which is now actually nearing (finally) competion and raking in the big bucks (euro airgead) as you call it... /c:21November2021@9pm approximately ps: what ever happened to the glenda space man (not

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2016-09-03 Thread Bakul Shah
> On Sep 2, 2016, at 4:02 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > >> On Sep 2, 2016, at 3:00 PM, Bakul Shah wrote: >> >> Separately, an interesting project would be to implement plan9 >> sandboxes (ala linux "containers" or freebsd "jails)" so that >> one can easily set up a cluster of plan9 boxes. >

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2016-09-02 Thread hiro
tip: use torrent next time. should be faster and there's an inbuilt integrity test. On 9/3/16, Adriano Verardo wrote: > cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote: >>> What VMare version do you use ? >> VMware Player 6.0.2 build-1744117. win7 64 bit. >> >> but what difference does it make? you have to l

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2016-09-02 Thread Adriano Verardo
cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote: What VMare version do you use ? VMware Player 6.0.2 build-1744117. win7 64 bit. but what difference does it make? you have to look at the evidence, not version numbers that dont tell you anything. Absolutely true, it makes no difference. But I'm trying to ful

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2016-09-02 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Sep 2, 2016, at 3:00 PM, Bakul Shah wrote: > > Separately, an interesting project would be to implement plan9 > sandboxes (ala linux "containers" or freebsd "jails)" so that > one can easily set up a cluster of plan9 boxes. Namespaces would make that an easy application, no? There is no r

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2016-09-02 Thread Bakul Shah
On Fri, 02 Sep 2016 15:08:16 PDT Kurt H Maier wrote: > > > However, if anyone makes plan9 work under bhyve or khyve I'm > > interested. > > I'm also interested in this, and every once in a while I test it out. > Nothing worth reporting yet, but once I get something running I'll > report it here.

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2016-09-02 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 03:00:26PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: > > Don't keep updating it. Problem solved! Our problem was that each individual user who reported a problem on vbox was running an apparently unique version -- I don't think we ever had two trouble reports that matched each other, or tw

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2016-09-02 Thread Bakul Shah
On Fri, 02 Sep 2016 17:15:32 EDT stanley lieber wrote: > Bakul Shah wrote: > > >On Fri, 02 Sep 2016 22:54:38 +0200 Adriano Verardo > > wrote: > >> What about VirtualBox or other VMs ? > > > >VirtualBox has worked well for me though I haven't installed > >plan9 lately. > > http://fqa.9front.org/

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2016-09-02 Thread cinap_lenrek
> What VMare version do you use ? VMware Player 6.0.2 build-1744117. win7 64 bit. i used to have virtual box for testing too but when i tried to update it, it stoped working and killed all my network connections during the installation. so i got angry and removed it from the computer. it was a wh

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2016-09-02 Thread stanley lieber
Bakul Shah wrote: >On Fri, 02 Sep 2016 22:54:38 +0200 Adriano Verardo > wrote: >> What about VirtualBox or other VMs ? > >VirtualBox has worked well for me though I haven't installed >plan9 lately. http://fqa.9front.org/fqa3.html#3.3 sl

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2016-09-02 Thread Bakul Shah
On Fri, 02 Sep 2016 22:54:38 +0200 Adriano Verardo wrote: > What about VirtualBox or other VMs ? VirtualBox has worked well for me though I haven't installed plan9 lately.

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2016-09-02 Thread Adriano Verardo
cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote: I'm sure the problem is the mix "obsolete(Win+VMware) + up-to-date Plan9 distro". doubt it. i'm actually testing every release on a windows 7 with vmware doing a install from scratch, then building amd64 on the newly installed system and reboot into 64 bit kerne

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2016-09-02 Thread cinap_lenrek
> I'm sure the problem is the mix "obsolete(Win+VMware) + up-to-date Plan9 > distro". doubt it. i'm actually testing every release on a windows 7 with vmware doing a install from scratch, then building amd64 on the newly installed system and reboot into 64 bit kernel as a regression test. howev

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2016-09-02 Thread Adriano Verardo
cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote: Yes. Follwed the ~usual install procedure. All ok till bootsetup included. Confirmed the "finish" step, unsolicited reboot, restart from .iso Hiding the CD, boot fails saying that there is no OS on the HD. ... another possibility is that no master boot record got

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2016-09-02 Thread cinap_lenrek
> Yes. Follwed the ~usual install procedure. All ok till bootsetup included. > Confirmed the "finish" step, unsolicited reboot, restart from .iso > Hiding the CD, boot fails saying that there is no OS on the HD. ... another possibility is that no master boot record got installed (you get prompted

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2016-09-02 Thread cinap_lenrek
> Yes. Follwed the ~usual install procedure. All ok till bootsetup included. > Confirmed the "finish" step, unsolicited reboot, restart from .iso > Hiding the CD, boot fails saying that there is no OS on the HD. sounds like the plan9 partition isnt marked as active (you get prompted for that durin

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2016-09-01 Thread Adriano Verardo
Prof Brucee wrote: Have you run inst/start after booting from iso? Yes. Follwed the ~usual install procedure. All ok till bootsetup included. Confirmed the "finish" step, unsolicited reboot, restart from .iso Hiding the CD, boot fails saying that there is no OS on the HD. adriano On 02/09/2

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2016-09-01 Thread Prof Brucee
Have you run inst/start after booting from iso? On 02/09/2016 12:59 PM, "Adriano Verardo" wrote: Julius Schmidt wrote: > 9front works fine in vmware. I've never had a problem (including a very > recent install at work). > How exactly does it fail in your case? > Install seem to complete regular

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2016-09-01 Thread Adriano Verardo
Julius Schmidt wrote: 9front works fine in vmware. I've never had a problem (including a very recent install at work). How exactly does it fail in your case? Install seem to complete regularly subsequent boots are from the .iso Tried to unlink the .iso, revove the virtal CD etc etc Where is my

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2016-09-01 Thread Adriano Verardo
Julius Schmidt wrote: 9front works fine in vmware. I've never had a problem (including a very recent install at work). How exactly does it fail in your case? Install seems to finish regularly, but reboot is from the .iso again. Tried to unlink the .iso, as usual on physical boxes etc etc I'm su

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2016-09-01 Thread Nickolas Peter
Sorry, just now seeing the Windows part at the end of your email. I've had no issues with VMware. On Thursday, September 1, 2016, Nickolas Peter wrote: > I've had a lot of success with qemu/libvirt on Linux. I have a separate > network on libvirt on its own subnet with a fs/auth and cpu server t

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2016-09-01 Thread Nickolas Peter
I've had a lot of success with qemu/libvirt on Linux. I have a separate network on libvirt on its own subnet with a fs/auth and cpu server that's accessible from the outside (via drawterm). I only had to play with it a little bit to get it working well. It might be quicker and easier with VMWare, t

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2016-09-01 Thread Julius Schmidt
9front works fine in vmware. I've never had a problem (including a very recent install at work). How exactly does it fail in your case? aiju On Thu, 1 Sep 2016, Adriano Verardo wrote: In the last two years I've very little used Plan9. All appls I made for clients work, solved all problem than

[9fans] Plan9 and VMs

2016-09-01 Thread Adriano Verardo
In the last two years I've very little used Plan9. All appls I made for clients work, solved all problem thanks to 9fans help, clients don't ask for improvements, ... Now I must install Plan9 in a VM. I'm testing VMware, but it is not a constraint. The Bell distro work fine, all others I trie