From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 08:28:29 -0400
From: Wallet Bradley C DLVA WalletBC@NSWC.NAVY.MIL
Subject: [9fans] Plan9 as guestOS under Vmware
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> 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