[9fans] installing Plan 9 under Microsoft's free Virtual PC?

["Andrew Hudson" <ahudson.inc@gmail.com>]

Since Microsoft just decided to release its Virtual PC virtualization
product for free I decided to give it a spin and see how Plan 9 worked
as a virtualized OS. I downloaded Virtual PC from here
(http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/downloads/sp1.mspx) and
installed it on a Proliant server with a 2.4 GHz Xeon processor, 1.3
GB of RAM, and a 15K SCSI disk, Windows 2000 Server. Virtual PC
complained that it was only supported on Windows 2003 and Windows XP
but seemed to install fine.

At the partdisk prompt I was not able to install a Master Boot Record
(mbr) in Virtual PC's virtual disk partition and so the installation
stopped dead. Does anyone have any insight to this problem or a
possible work-aounrd? Running Plan 9 under the now free Virtual PC
would eliminate a lot of hardware compatibility headaches and make
Plan 9 more accessible to a large number of people running Windows.

- Andrew