[Qemu-devel] qemu and plan9

[Marc Vertes <mvertes@free.fr>]

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After the release of the news cirrus vga virtual display, I tried to
run plan9 (Unix successor from bell-labs) under qemu. The install floppy
image boots successfully and activated the graphic part. Very
impressive.

I had to tweak configurations file on the boot floppy image (see
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/download.html).

See attached plan9.ini (monitor line) and a few lines that I added in
vgadb:

ctlr
        vid=0x1013 did=0x00B8           # CL-GD5446
        0xC0006="Plex86/Bochs VGABios "            
        link=vga
        ctlr=clgd542x linear=1
        hwgc=clgd542xhwgc


The problem I face now is that the hard disk is not recognized. The
disk partitioning tool does not start.

I have created a correct hda image file. The command line is:

qemu -pci -cirrusvga -fda 9dsk.flp -hda plan9.img -boot a

Any advice to go further ?

Thanks.

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Marc

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*nomp=1
distname=plan9
nobootprompt=local!/boot/bzroot

# serial console on COM1
#console=0

# disable ether and usb probing
#*nousbprobe=1
#*noetherprobe=1

ether0=type=NE2000
monitor=xga
vgasize=1024x768x8
mouseport=ps2
audio0=type=sb16
bootfile=fd0!dos!9pcflop.gz
installurl=http://204.178.31.2/magic/9down4e/compressed/1086553143.73ddntc7rw8er6yry6gz696q6tgf85x5
                                                   
                                                       
                            

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