Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Qemu on Windows?

["LiteStar numnums" <litestar@gmail.com>]

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The latest: http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/
Works fine with Plan9 (with Fossil + Venti)
Cheers,
-- LS

On 8/8/06, Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/8/06, Anssi Porttikivi <porttikivi@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Has anyone tried running Plan 9 on the Windows version of qemu (which
> > is in alpha)? Any tips for making it work?
>
> Version 0.7.2 works well.  You can get it pre-built from the ReactOS Web
> site:
>
> http://www.reactos.org/xhtml/en/download.html
>
> If you already have the latest version, you can use qemu-img to
> generate a disk image to suit.  I usually create an empty, compressed
> VMware disk image of 20GB that I copy each time I need a disk for some
> random OS for either VMware Player or QEMU, as they'll both use the
> same disk format, and empty it's just a few KB.
>
> To install:
>
> qemu -boot d -cdrom \path\to\plan9.iso -m 128 -L . plan9.vmdk -user-net
>
> (options are slightly different for version 8, feel free to tune the RAM,
> etc.)
>
> Venti will cause your disk image to grow to nearly actual size, so if
> your virtual disk image is smaller than your available space, I would
> recommend skipping a local venti.  Also, if you plan on moving the
> image around, you can get an install in under 400MB pretty easily.
>
> To boot:
>
> qemu -boot c -m 128 -L . plan9.vmdk -user-net
>
> >From there, you'd want to read the standard QEMU guides on networking
> and maybe peruse the mailing list archives for insight on Plan 9 and
> NAT.
>
> Good luck!
>
> -Jack
>



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