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

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

[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

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

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

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

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