Re: [9fans] Let's get VM configs onto the Wiki.

[Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:53:27 PST Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>  wrote:
> > I found that Virtualbox worked very well when I was fiddling with my
> > Macbook on the way back from IWP9. I haven't tried it on the thinkpad
> > yet.
>
> What would be *really* helpful is if people who have actual real live
> running this minute Plan 9 under some VM system would post their
> *specific* VM and Plan9 configuration files to the Wiki.
>
> Several people claim to be running Plan 9 under assorted VMs, but it's
> very difficult for others to reproduce that success, and every time I ask
> someone for specific configs the response is "well that was months ago and
> I don't use it any more" or suchlike.
>
> Not that I don't believe them, but basically I don't believe them ;-)

I have added my notes about vbox 4 on OS X to

  http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/virtual_machines/index.html

Feel free to update.

To do: add freebsd notes.

But I am not a fan of Wikis. Usually a wiki ends up being an
unstructured collection of useful facts that can go stale as
it takes a lot of effort to keep it organized.