From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <03c0815c70324a38dbb0748b39176d20@plan9.bell-labs.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Drawterm or VMWare terminal? From: "Russ Cox" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:42:34 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 745d6248-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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