Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Peter Hull
Hi Shane, I just tried an installation from scratch of 9atom - downloaded the ISO from Quanstro.net, installed on VirtualBox 4.3.12 on Mavericks 10.9.3 accepting the defaults as far as possible. It all installed fine and booted fine. I've not had time to setup networking etc. but it certainly

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
Why do people insist on VirtualBox? How many times it has to be said. VirtualBox is utter shite. QEMU and VMware work. QEMU is especially interesting because it can work without a broken kernel driver (although it can use kvm, a good kernel driver on Linux). -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread peterhull90
Aram Hăvărneanu I don’t know who you are but you seem to be in a very bad mood today. From: Aram Hăvărneanu Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎22‎ ‎May‎ ‎2014 ‎11‎:‎54 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs Why do people insist on VirtualBox? How many times it has to be said. VirtualBox is utter

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu May 22 06:55:44 EDT 2014, ara...@mgk.ro wrote: Why do people insist on VirtualBox? How many times it has to be said. VirtualBox is utter shite. QEMU and VMware work. QEMU is especially interesting because it can work without a broken kernel driver (although it can use kvm, a good kernel

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
because they're using osx, and don't want to shell out for vmware. QEMU works on OS X. -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Jeff Sickel
On May 22, 2014, at 8:05 AM, Aram Hăvărneanu ara...@mgk.ro wrote: because they're using osx, and don't want to shell out for vmware. QEMU works on OS X. If by ‘works’ you mean the an ancient version that doesn’t really run well on OS X 10.9.x, then sure. So far, I’ve not gotten a version

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
If by ‘works’ you mean the an ancient version that doesn’t really run well on OS X 10.9.x, then sure. So far, I’ve not gotten a version of qemu to build on OS X that would support Plan 9 or any other OS I’m interesting in testing. I have both 1.6.1 and 2.0 on 10.9 (the latest). 1.6.1 is not

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Rubén Berenguel
➜ ~ brew info qemu qemu: stable 2.0.0, HEAD http://www.qemu.org/ /usr/local/Cellar/qemu/1.5.1 (114 files, 90M) Built from source /usr/local/Cellar/qemu/2.0.0_1 (120 files, 98M) * Built from source From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/commits/master/Library/Formula/qemu.rb ==

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Jeff Sickel
On May 22, 2014, at 9:39 AM, Rubén Berenguel ru...@mostlymaths.net wrote: From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/commits/master/Library/Formula/qemu.rb Ah, ruby, yet another technology I have zero use for on my systems. -jas

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Rubén Berenguel
It's homebrew, a package repository for OS X. OS X already comes with a ruby interpreter anyway. And this allows anyone to compile from source qemu 2.0.0 without much fuss. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Jeff Sickel j...@corpus-callosum.comwrote: On May 22, 2014, at 9:39 AM, Rubén Berenguel

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Jeff Sickel
On May 22, 2014, at 9:44 AM, Jeff Sickel j...@corpus-callosum.com wrote: On May 22, 2014, at 9:39 AM, Rubén Berenguel ru...@mostlymaths.net wrote: From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/commits/master/Library/Formula/qemu.rb Ah, ruby, yet another technology I have zero use for on

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
Ah, ruby, yet another technology I have zero use for on my systems. That technology is already installed on your system. -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Jeff Sickel
On May 22, 2014, at 9:49 AM, Aram Hăvărneanu ara...@mgk.ro wrote: Ah, ruby, yet another technology I have zero use for on my systems. That technology is already installed on your system. And not used. Wasted bits on the ssd. http://hadihariri.com/2014/04/21/build-make-no-more/

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Shane Morris
Aram, if you have a bunch of settings that work under VMWare Fusion for Plan 9, then I am all ears. I was under the understanding Plan 9 didn't work under VMWare... On 5/23/14, Jeff Sickel j...@corpus-callosum.com wrote: On May 22, 2014, at 9:49 AM, Aram Hăvărneanu ara...@mgk.ro wrote: Ah,

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu May 22 17:25:07 EDT 2014, edgecombe...@gmail.com wrote: Aram, if you have a bunch of settings that work under VMWare Fusion for Plan 9, then I am all ears. I was under the understanding Plan 9 didn't work under VMWare... the second thing the nix terminal ran on was vmware. i just have

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread sl
I was under the understanding Plan 9 didn't work under VMWare... http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/vmware/img/fusion.png sl

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Shane Morris
Ok, I stand corrected. On 5/23/14, s...@9front.org s...@9front.org wrote: I was under the understanding Plan 9 didn't work under VMWare... http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/vmware/img/fusion.png sl

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Shane Morris
Just booted the VM using WLAN and my phones wireless hotspot, came up almost instantly. Now the real work begins - configuration... On 5/23/14, Shane Morris edgecombe...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I stand corrected. On 5/23/14, s...@9front.org s...@9front.org wrote: I was under the understanding

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread kokamoto
Ok, I stand corrected. Off topic, sorry. I saw this phrase some times here. What it does mean? I know it's meaning I think. What I want to know is why they say just 'thanks'. Is this something some culture related? Kenji

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Joseph Thompson
On May 22, 2014 10:18:32 PM EDT, kokam...@hera.eonet.ne.jp wrote: Ok, I stand corrected. Off topic, sorry. I saw this phrase some times here. What it does mean? I know it's meaning I think. What I want to know is why they say just 'thanks'. Is this something some culture related? Kenji It's

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Shane Morris
Hi Kenji, As Joseph said, shorthand for Thanks for correcting me on that, and giving me the knowledge I needed, or that I asked for... It is probably a Western-ism, a cultural thing of America/ United Kingdom/ Australia, if not others. I've been using it since I could talk, and started asking the

[9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-21 Thread Shane Morris
Hi 9fans, I am running the latest VirtualBox on the latest Mavericks, and after an install of 9atom, go to run the resulting image, and execution stops at the /bin/rc command, just before entry into Rio. I noticed this same problem on my Macbook Air on 10.8 - I thought I had just botched my