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From: Jeff Sickel <jas@cor...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] QEMU and Venti
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:38:35 -0500


On Apr 22, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote:

> Hello. Someone just told me the fault on why QEMU crashes every time  
> I boot Plan 9 -- venti. With a fossil only system, everything worked  
> without a hitch -- until that corrupt

On Leopard I've found that QEMU runs very slowly but crashes  
exceedingly reliably.  So much so, that it wasn't worth my effort to  
get Plan 9 or anything else running on it for much time at all.  With  
luck and a lot of trying, I did get VMware to work very reliably with  
Plan 9--I've got it running right now to look at all the nice details  
about grabrfc currently floating about.

Note: for VMware it helps to set it up with pccpuf and modify the boot  
to not bring up rio.  Keep the console running and use drawterm  
instead and it works like a charm.

-jas