On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:50 PM, David du Colombier <0in...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I've been trying for about two days to get the stock Plan9 from Bell
>> > Labs to install with Networking under Virtual Box
>>
>> Bell Labs Plan 9 and networking works well in virtualbox 3.1.8 using
>> Am79C973 virtual ethernet adapter in bridged mode, chipset PIIX3
>> selected and "Enable IO APIC" turned off. (Maybe not the only usable
>> settings but these work for me.)
>>
>> Some newer versions of virtualbox have been reported as problematic.
>> You can search for "virtualbox old builds" on the web.
>
> I agree with Richard and I can confirm Plan 9 works
> fine in VirtualBox 4.1.24 (2012-12-19).
>
> It can be downloaded here:
>
> http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.24/
>
> However, as Richard said, VirtualBox 4.2 is known
> not to work with Plan 9 from Bell Labs.
>
confirmed working with the same setup (bridged/Am79C973), IDE primary
drive and DHCP.
