Re: [9fans] Plan 9 via QEMU

2009-08-22 Thread Bakul Shah
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:34:03 EDT Akshat Kumar aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote: If I start QEMU with the option to boot directly from the HD image, as opposed to booting from network, then it starts up fine - but then the kernel is different also. I don't know what part of this is really

[9fans] Plan 9 via QEMU

2009-08-21 Thread Akshat Kumar
... on Acer Aspire One to add more fun. Yes, on the Acer Aspire One, I have no means to compile, with all hopes of GCC thwarted by the draconian schemes of archaic Linux package managers, all slowly drowning in dependency hell. But enough fantasising -- No GCC, no kernel sources (which are

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 via QEMU

2009-08-21 Thread matt
you can configure Qemu to use the host console as the guest serial console

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 via QEMU

2009-08-21 Thread Akshat Kumar
Upon Steve's suggestion, I enabled *nodumpstack=1 in the PXE config for the Plan 9 in QEMU. The result follows: ... password: ! time... panic: boot process died: sys: demand load I/O error accessing /386/init: mount rpc error panic: boot process died: sys: demand load I/O error accessing

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 via QEMU

2009-08-21 Thread erik quanstrom
So, could it be that there are problems doing IL through QEMU? There shouldn't be, as the pcap device sends directly through the interface... so far as I can tell. Input welcome. do a packet trace from the host. it's also possible to turn on some il tracing on the fs. here are a couple

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 via QEMU

2009-08-21 Thread Akshat Kumar
This time with just flag authdebug and without going through secstore, since it gave me the problem highlighted above, plain auth from the QEMU host gives the following at Ken FS: il: allocating ... user akumar = 2 authenticated authorize: uid is 2 authorize: uid is 2 hangup! connection timed

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 via QEMU

2009-08-21 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Akshat Kumaraku...@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote: This time with just flag authdebug and without going through secstore, since it gave me the problem highlighted above, plain auth from the QEMU host gives the following at Ken FS: il: allocating ... user

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 via QEMU

2009-08-21 Thread Akshat Kumar
i also see it trying to auth bootes (i think). do you have a user bootes? Yes, bootes is the hostowner of the CPU/Auth server. I've got a QEMU image that was distributed by Devon, so I could at least try to get into Plan 9 inside QEMU and try to connect to Ken FS server from there. I'm still

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 via QEMU

2009-08-21 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Aug 21 21:35:38 EDT 2009, aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote: i also see it trying to auth bootes (i think). do you have a user bootes? Yes, bootes is the hostowner of the CPU/Auth server. also must have a user bootes on the fs even with auth disabled. might be good to turn on more