From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <53f976bd0607240941q6967ead3ld9114079775c4814@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:41:08 -0400 From: "Andrew Hudson" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [9fans] installing Plan 9 under Microsoft's free Virtual PC? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8aa31c18-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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