From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Tritschler Subject: Re: [9fans] Laptop and VM software In-reply-to: <53d09c64c314eb2c75ac4aee7d17b778@plan9.bell-labs.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-id: <3F1775B1.3090904@ajft.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030716 References: <53d09c64c314eb2c75ac4aee7d17b778@plan9.bell-labs.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:21:05 +1000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: fab58000-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: >On Thu Jul 17 14:16:28 EDT 2003, vdharani@infernopark.com wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>I am planning to buy a laptop. I want to install Win, Linux and Plan 9. >> >>Can you please suggest what VM software I should go for? VMware or Virtual >>PC? >> >>Also, can you suggest what model I should go for? IBM T23? Or better Txx >>model? Or someother brand/model? >> >>I kind-of figured from the mailing list and Wiki pages that T23 and VMware >>4.0 are the ones I should go for but I just want to make sure. >> >>Any help appreciated. >> >>Thanks >>dharani >> >> > >Even the T23 is not uniform. We have ones with the internal Intel 82557 ethernet >controller, the T23 is also available with an internal 3Com controller and, if I >remember correctly, there was a problem with that. > That'd be my[1] IBM T21. :-( Plan9's 3com driver doesn't work with the "3Com 10/100 Mini PCI Ethernet Adapter" that was supplied with it. It's not really a case of "internal vs external" controller, both are internal mini-PCI cards, one works, one doesn't. If anyone can give me any hints on making it work, or how to debug a network card driver, I'm all ears... >VMware is the only choice. Virtual PC doesn't implement the PC it says it does and plan 9 finds that out. > Adrian [1] my employer's T21, provided for "work and work-related purposes"