Re: [9fans] Drawterm or VMWare terminal?

["Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>]

It depends on the details of your network, and on
personal preferences.  If drawterm works well then
VMware might be overkill, but if it doesn't then
VMware might save you.  Drawterm requires a
lower-latency network to feel good than a real
Plan 9 terminal typically does, because drawterm
only displays graphics while a real Plan 9 terminal
runs at least rio and perhaps your other apps locally.

You need to recompile your kernel to get tcp support.
In the section that says


boot boot #S/sdC0/
	il
	local

you should change it to say


boot boot #S/sdC0/
	il
	tcp
	local

and then you can choose "tcp" as the boot method.
In addition to 567, you need to open port 564, which is
the 9fs tcp port.  You also need to make sure your kfs
is listening, with

	disk/kfscmd 'listen tcp!*!564'

Then you should be able to boot.

Another consideration is that using drawterm will
encrypt your sessions.  Using a terminal will encrypt
your cpu sessions but not your file system traffic.

Russ