[9fans] Plan9 as guestOS under Vmware

[9fans] Plan9 as guestOS under Vmware

[Digby]

Anyone tried booting Plan9 as a guest OS on a Vmware virtual
machine?

It seems to offer a plausible way of piggy backing on Linux
driver support and avoiding the need to arbitrarily partition
the disk on a notebook, not to mention the advantage of being
able to run both OSs simulataneously.

Regards,
DigbyT
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Digby R. S. Tarvin                                              digbyt@acm.org
http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk

[9fans] Plan9 as guestOS under Vmware

[Wallet]

> From: Digby Tarvin [mailto:digbyt@acm.org]
> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 3:50 AM
> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
> Subject: [9fans] Plan9 as guestOS under Vmware
> 
> 
> Anyone tried booting Plan9 as a guest OS on a Vmware virtual
> machine?
> 
> It seems to offer a plausible way of piggy backing on Linux
> driver support and avoiding the need to arbitrarily partition
> the disk on a notebook, not to mention the advantage of being
> able to run both OSs simulataneously.

IMHO, the most attractive feature about using Plan9 with VMWare would be the
capability to construct an entire Plan9 network on a single system.  The
ability to experiment in this environment would be great.

Brad

[9fans] Plan9 as guestOS under Vmware

[geoff]

I tried plan 9 2nd ed.  and brazil and they failed to boot.  jmk
speculated that the AMD PCNET PCI Ethernet controller vmware emulates
is probably just different enough from the AMD 79C970 controller that
brazil supports to make it fail.  b.com sees the emulated IDE disk but
doesn't offer it as a boot device.