From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] vmware notes
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 23:51:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <07c807d1b3561c1f8efbd2566f756e33@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.51.0301261009250.55328@csb>
> I tried to find in the archives whether the vmware image for plan9 is
> updated frequently or not.
It's not. It's updated about as frequently as the "stable" CD image.
> The current vmware image doesn't have rob pike's newwindow() addition to
> libdraw. While I had no problems doing a replica/pull a newcomer to the OS
> may find it frustrating that the network is not working by default for
> example.
>
> I would suggest enabling ip/ipconfig (the DHCP one) in the default vmware
> installation since vmware aliases the already existing network connection so
> nicely...
Hmm. I should have turned that on. Whoops.
> As for keeping the vmware image up to date, it may be easier just to give
> instructions how to register on sources.cs and how to do a replica/pull and
> not bother with putting a brand new vmware image on the web each night :)
I don't know any easy way to put up a new image automatically anyway.
Russ
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2003-01-26 17:20 andrey mirtchovski
2003-01-27 4:51 ` Russ Cox [this message]
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