[9fans] Virtualbox 4.2.14 and Plan 9

2013-07-08 Thread Carl Phillips
The 4.2.14 maintenance release (2013-06-21) of Virtualbox has a fix for the problem that stopped Plan 9 working with Virtualbox 4.2. From https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog : BIOS: don't use the ENTER / LEAVE instructions in the BIOS as these don't work in the real mode as set up by cer

Re: [9fans] 9atom installation fails due to missing files

2013-07-08 Thread Carl Phillips
On 08/07/13 13:06, Steffen Daode Nurpmeso wrote: Now i only fail to get it working in VirtualBox; both of 4.2.14 (June 21th, 86644) and 4.2.16 (86992) hang after "init: starting /bin/rc" with 100% CPU time ("Live CD": ~28%). I hope i find some time to try it on an old but physical Athlon system

Re: [9fans] 9atom installation fails due to missing files

2013-07-08 Thread Carl Phillips
I think you need the extension pack installed...if I uninstall it from this machine I can provoke the behaviour you describe with high cpu load and hangs after starting bin/rc. The install to disk option seems less prone to failure and sometimes it boots the live CD but takes a long time doing

Re: [9fans] Networking in VirtualBox (DNS problem?)

2013-08-07 Thread Carl Phillips
Hi Ruben, If you still want to try and get dns working in VirtualBox: try editing /rc/bin/termrc so that the ip/ipconfig and ndb/dns -r lines are always executed - comment out the tests above each of these lines. Reboot the vm after making these changes. This works well here on an Arch Linux

Re: [9fans] cheap, usb-c powered, quiet, virtualization capable, multicore intel x86 PCs

2025-02-08 Thread Carl Phillips
I have a GMKtec G3 N100 mini pc which has been running 9front ok for the past few months. It is very cheap (I paid £63 delivered to the UK with 8GB RAM, 256GB NVME installed), x86, quiet, virtualization capable and multicore. It's not usb-c powered out the box but you can use a barrel jack to