On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:25:53 PDT David Leimbach <leim...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Bakul Shah
> <bakul+pl...@bitblocks.com<bakul%2bpl...@bitblocks.com>
> > wrote:
...
> > I think vbox devices and recompiler are based on qemu but I
> > don't really know. IIRC early qemu did seem to have similar
> > issues with plan9.
> >
> > Since other OSes run pretty well, my guess is something plan9
> > depends on heavily has to be emulated (due to memory layout
> > assumptions or something).
> >
>
> I've also tried Minix and QNX and both have problems on Virtual Box. Which
> other OSes did you try? Linux and windows work but they're like necessary
> to even claim you can do anything virtualization wise.
>
> Dave
Just FreeBSD, linux and Windows.
Anyway, a couple of areas to look into, if you want plan9 on
vbox: try changing the memory layout of plan9 or figure out
what qemu did to make plan9 run well and apply that change to
vbox.
