Using Plan 9Front in Virtualbox

Stock Labs Plan 9 does not run in Virtualbox last I have checked.

Below is a copy of the 9fans e-mail I sent on running 9Front in Virtualbox.

OS: Windows 10 Virtualbox: 5.1.22 r115126 9Front: d44f7b86e2ba+ tip

VirtualBox Guest Config:

General -> Basic Type: Other Version: Other/Unknown (64-bit)

System -> Motherboard Chipset: PIIX3 Pointing Device: PS/2 Mouse Extended Features: [x] Enable I/O APIC

System -> Processor Extended Features: [x] PAE/NX

System -> Acceleration x Enable Nested Paging

Display -> Screen Acceleration: [x] Enable 3D Acceleration

Storage -> Attributes Name: IDE Type: PIIX4 [x] Use Host I/O Cache

Audio -> [x] Enable Audio Host Audio Driver: CoreAudio or PulseAudio or Windows DirectSound Audio Controller: Soundblaster 16

Network -> Adapter 1 Attached to: Host-only Adapter Name: VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter -> Advanced Adapter Type: Intel PRO/1000 MT Server

Network -> Adapter 2 Attached to: NAT -> Advanced Adapter Type: Intel PRO/1000 MT Server

Note: Enabling USB 2.0 Control in 'Ports -> USB' should work

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Making it work in 9Front post-install:

File -> Preferences -> Host-only Networks -> VirtualBox Host-only Adapter -> DHCP Server

Take note of the Server Mask and the IP range, you'll use these to set up a /lib/ndb/local something along the lines of:

ipnet=9front ip=192.168.56.0 ipmask=255.255.255.0
	auth=cirno
	cpu=cirno
	smtp=cirno

sys=cirno ether=080047472abc ip=192.168.56.102

Set an arbitrary address within range for Adapter 1, this will be ether1 and Adapter 2 should be ether0 (for some reason I had to flip them).

Adapter 1's address is the remote access address, I just leave the Adapter 2 to be auto-configured by 9Front via DHCP and provide internet access that way.

To ensure ether1 comes up: Create /cfg/$sysname/cpustart and add:

bind -a '#l1' /net.alt
bind -b '#I1' /net.alt
ip/ipconfig ether /net.alt/ether1

Hopefully this helps someone.

Cheers,

Sean