Re: [9fans] VMware and 9atom

2013-10-10 Thread David du Colombier
I have VirtualBox 4.2.6_OSE r82870. I assume the OSE is OpenSuSE Edition. I think I can get some help installing an older version(4.1.24) on the OpenSuse forums. The 4.2 branch of VirtualBox was known to have a bug with real mode which prevented to run Plan 9 (and QNX) successfully. This bug

Re: [9fans] VMware and 9atom

2013-10-10 Thread Richard Miller
If you want to run Plan 9 on VirtualBox, you have to use either the 4.1 branch (for example 4.1.26) or 4.2.14 and later. I can confirm that standard Plan 9 runs on virtualbox 4.2.18 on MacOSX (tried it just now), but only after compiling and installing an up to date kernel. The kernel binaries

Re: [9fans] VMware and 9atom

2013-10-10 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
I will never understand people's fascination with VirtualBox. Why bother with all this versioning stuff; what VirtualBox version, what kernel. Qemu works, and works much better. Why waste anyone's time instead of always denouncing VirtualBox... -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] VMware and 9atom

2013-10-10 Thread Bakul Shah
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:03:55 +0200 =?UTF-8?B?QXJhbSBIxIN2xINybmVhbnU=?= ara...@mgk.ro wrote: I will never understand people's fascination with VirtualBox. Why bother with all this versioning stuff; what VirtualBox version, what kernel. Qemu works, and works much better. Avoid blindly

[9fans] it's the small things ...

2013-10-10 Thread erik quanstrom
i feel rather dumb for not thing of this until now. it's been a constant annoyance that cd in scripts screws up plumbing. here's a fairly fool-proof solution. unfortunately if you like your acme tag jumping like a jack rabbit with its tail on fire, you may be bored during compiles. :-)

Re: [9fans] VMware and 9atom

2013-10-10 Thread Daode
Richard Miller 9f...@hamnavoe.com wrote: | If you want to run Plan 9 on VirtualBox, you have to use either | the 4.1 branch (for example 4.1.26) or 4.2.14 and later. | |I can confirm that standard Plan 9 runs on virtualbox 4.2.18 on MacOSX |(tried it just now) I have (had) no issue(s) with

[9fans] confusion about dns data base

2013-10-10 Thread erik quanstrom
this entry from dns here is in the local ndb files. buda.quanstro.net buda.quanstro.net ip192.168.0.139 AN 0/3600 buda.quanstro.net ip192.168.0.139 AD 1411699741/3600 AN means authoratative from network, and AD means authoratative from (n)db