I couldnt got Plan9 to natively run on my machine, so i thought it'd be
a nice 2-in-1 learning experience to get it working under Hyper-V.
Since i wouldnt like the one thing i learn to be: this cant be done, id
like to ask if anyone had succes getting it run with MS virtualization?

Sandor Nagy

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:02, bituman wrote:
> I couldnt got Plan9 to natively run on my machine, so i thought it'd be a
> nice 2-in-1 learning experience to get it working under Hyper-V.
> Since i wouldnt like the one thing i learn to be: this cant be done, id like
> to ask if anyone had succes getting it run with MS virtualization?
>
> Sandor Nagy
>
>

If the Xen 3.x port is in any shape, it would be a good starting point
for running it under Hyper-V, as it was advertised to support Xen
guests. Also there might be some way to make it emulate a full
machine, but I don't know about that. It certainly would be an
interesting solution for getting Plan 9 into Business - Windows 2008
seems to be fairly well integrated with Hyper-V.


--
Paweł Lasek

I have no idea about Hyper-V, however plan9 does run
under qemu and under vmware on windows. Also a windows
9vx implementation is in progress.

-Steve

I tried running Plan 9 4e on Microsoft Virtual PC (v6.0.156.0, both 32- and
64-bit versions). It wouldn't work due to a strange problem with (virtual)
disk I/O. Virtual Server 2005 uses similar technology so I think it would
fail, too. Though, I didn't exactly give it a try. Hardware virtualization
often creates more problems that software, right?

--On Wednesday, August 27, 2008 10:02 AM +0200 bituman
wrote:

> I couldn't got Plan9 to natively run on my machine, so i thought it'd be a
> nice 2-in-1 learning experience to get it working under Hyper-V.
> Since i wouldnt like the one thing i learn to be: this cant be done, id
> like to ask if anyone had succes getting it run with MS virtualization?
>
> Sandor Nagy
>

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Eris Discordia
wrote:
> I tried running Plan 9 4e on Microsoft Virtual PC (v6.0.156.0, both 32- and
> 64-bit versions). It wouldn't work due to a strange problem with (virtual)
> disk I/O. Virtual Server 2005 uses similar technology so I think it would
> fail, too. Though, I didn't exactly give it a try. Hardware virtualization
> often creates more problems that software, right?

The "run from cd" booted up just fine in MS Virtual Server 2005. I
never got round to installing it fully though. If I remember
correctly, I started an install once, but had to turn off disk dma and
then the formatting of a small venti (~3-4GB) took more than two
hours, so I aborted. Got a "faster" machine now, so maybe I'll try
that again.

Robby

> The "run from cd" booted up just fine in MS Virtual Server 2005. I
> never got round to installing it fully though. If I remember
> correctly, I started an install once, but had to turn off disk dma and
> then the formatting of a small venti (~3-4GB) took more than two
> hours, so I aborted. Got a "faster" machine now, so maybe I'll try
> that again.
>

i didn't think that dma was the default. if it is, i would
think that this would cause more problems than it would
solve. slow is better than not working at all.

- erik

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:16 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
>> The "run from cd" booted up just fine in MS Virtual Server 2005. I
>> never got round to installing it fully though. If I remember
>> correctly, I started an install once, but had to turn off disk dma and
>> then the formatting of a small venti (~3-4GB) took more than two
>> hours, so I aborted. Got a "faster" machine now, so maybe I'll try
>> that again.
>>
>
> i didn't think that dma was the default. if it is, i would
> think that this would cause more problems than it would
> solve. slow is better than not working at all.

Running another install into MSVirtualServer R2 SP1 just now with an
old iso had lying around (20070329) and I misremembered. Disk dma had
to be on, otherwise you get lots of i/o errors. It is the copydist
that takes forever. I'll post back once I got it all up. I may try it
with the latest iso as well.

Robby

It will eventually install but won't get past a specific step after the
installed system is booted. I asked about the problem on 9fans. No
solutions... yet.

Here's the thread: http://9fans.net/archive/2008/01/547

--On Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:33 PM +0100 Robert Raschke
wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Eris Discordia
> wrote:
>> I tried running Plan 9 4e on Microsoft Virtual PC (v6.0.156.0, both 32-
>> and 64-bit versions). It wouldn't work due to a strange problem with
>> (virtual) disk I/O. Virtual Server 2005 uses similar technology so I
>> think it would fail, too. Though, I didn't exactly give it a try.
>> Hardware virtualization often creates more problems that software, right?
>
> The "run from cd" booted up just fine in MS Virtual Server 2005. I
> never got round to installing it fully though. If I remember
> correctly, I started an install once, but had to turn off disk dma and
> then the formatting of a small venti (~3-4GB) took more than two
> hours, so I aborted. Got a "faster" machine now, so maybe I'll try
> that again.
>
> Robby
>