Re: [9fans] Solicited VirtualBox submission (negative)

2013-03-14 Thread Kyle Laracey 
On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 11:04:03 AM UTC-4, Steffen Daode Nurpmeso wrote:
 Hello,
 
 VirtualBox 4.2.6 on Mac OS X does *not* work with
 
   plan9.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data \
 
   'PLAN 9 - DEC 8 2012 04:00  '
 
 
 
 Memory ranges: 128 - 1024 MB.
 
 Chipset: PII3X with/out I/O APIC; ICH9.
 
 With/out PAE/NX.  With/out hw-virt-acceleration.
 
 Video memory: 8 - 128 MB with/out 3D acceleration.
 
 Storage controller: PIIX[34], ICH6; with/out host cache.
 
 
 
 It always enters an endless loop after the 'Plan 9' message
 
 appears.
 
 
 
 --steffen

I can confirm. On 4.2.8, it hangs after the 'Plan 9' message.

Re: [9fans] Solicited VirtualBox submission (negative)

2013-03-14 Thread Daode 
Aram Hăvărneanu ara...@mgk.ro wrote:
 | Does QEMU run on Mac OS X at all?
 |
 |Sure.

I never got it compiled; i tried again and failed even after light
configure hacking.  But really, i'm happy with VirtualBox and even
got Plan9 installed in the meanwhile; first made the big too disk
(DOS partition that is), the second try failed to install -- at
75% i switched off and went online on the host, when i switched
back i got an endless I/O errors read failed loop still at 75%,
but when i reinstalled on top of that failed one turned out to be
an installation-continuation instead (only hitted RETURN and yet
installed data was recognized), and this time it finished just
fine!

 |Aram Hăvărneanu

--steffen

[9fans] Solicited VirtualBox submission (negative)

2013-03-13 Thread Daode 
Hello,
VirtualBox 4.2.6 on Mac OS X does *not* work with
  plan9.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data \
  'PLAN 9 - DEC 8 2012 04:00  '

Memory ranges: 128 - 1024 MB.
Chipset: PII3X with/out I/O APIC; ICH9.
With/out PAE/NX.  With/out hw-virt-acceleration.
Video memory: 8 - 128 MB with/out 3D acceleration.
Storage controller: PIIX[34], ICH6; with/out host cache.

It always enters an endless loop after the 'Plan 9' message
appears.

--steffen

Re: [9fans] Solicited VirtualBox submission (negative)

2013-03-13 Thread David du Colombier 
 Hello,
 VirtualBox 4.2.6 on Mac OS X does *not* work with
   plan9.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data \
   'PLAN 9 - DEC 8 2012 04:00  '
 
 Memory ranges: 128 - 1024 MB.
 Chipset: PII3X with/out I/O APIC; ICH9.
 With/out PAE/NX.  With/out hw-virt-acceleration.
 Video memory: 8 - 128 MB with/out 3D acceleration.
 Storage controller: PIIX[34], ICH6; with/out host cache.
 
 It always enters an endless loop after the 'Plan 9' message
 appears.

As said earlier, Plan 9 is already known not to work
in VirtualBox 4.2. You should try VirtualBox 4.1.

-- 
David du Colombier

Re: [9fans] Solicited VirtualBox submission (negative)

2013-03-13 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu 
No, really. You should try QEMU. I understand that newcomers might be
tempted to use VirtualBox because it worked well for them in the past,
but I see zero reason for us to recommend anything but QEMU while
actively discouraging VirtualBox.

-- 
Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] Solicited VirtualBox submission (negative)

2013-03-13 Thread Daode 
Aram Hăvărneanu ara...@mgk.ro wrote:
 |No, really. You should try QEMU. I understand that newcomers might be
 |tempted to use VirtualBox because it worked well for them in the past,
 |but I see zero reason for us to recommend anything but QEMU while
 |actively discouraging VirtualBox.

Does QEMU run on Mac OS X at all?
And.. not really newcomer, i'm a BSD/vim/keyboard guy... but was
pointed to and am interested in the Unicode/Text capabilities of
Plan9, and stumbled over a rather impressive Acme video tutorial
when looking around for more background on that (and also found
mk-with-libs).
glenda is sweet!
And of course, everything is a file(system) etc., sounds Unix.

 |-- 
 |Aram Hăvărneanu

--steffen

Re: [9fans] Solicited VirtualBox submission (negative)

2013-03-13 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu 
 Does QEMU run on Mac OS X at all?

Sure.

-- 
Aram Hăvărneanu