Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.

[Nicolas BERCHER <nbercher@yahoo.fr>]

On 05/06/2011 08:18, Josh Marshall wrote:
> I'm chugging through the resources, reading, and documentation.  This
> system acts differently from anything I've previously used, so I'm at a
> loss at...everything.  I visited the IRC channel and am working through
> the .pdf and the main site.  Is there anything else I should be looking
> into?  Also, the .pdf said that I should have a working plan9 install
> available to practice, so I tried using vmplayer but the kernel panics.
> I'm learning, but not well acquainted with kernel programming,
> debugging, or anything else.  Also, if this all seems kind of
> incoherent, I'm sorry, its past 2am and I've been working on absorbing
> info for over 4 hours.

Hi,

I recently installed Plan 9 (the real one from the Bell Labs) on qemu (hosted by a 32bits
Debian).   Since kvm and qemu share the same user interface (yes I'm talking about command
line), I use kvm to get the benefice of my intel cpu that is "vmx-aware" (aka VT-x).


If you are already familiar with partitioning disks, it should be relatively easy for you
to install Plan 9.  It is quite simple, even with "fossil+venti" option.  The installer
will propose you a partition map that you can accept at first.

Nicolas

Ps: in my installation, I wanted to use two qemu hard drive images: one for Plan 9/fossil
and another one for venti (the later contains a first partition for the arenas, it uses
95% of the disk, and the second partition uses 5% of the disk and is used for the venti
index).