Re: [9fans] Serious Problem Running Plan 9 on Virtual PC

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> With this situation at hand, and the bag of nasty little tricks empty, I  
> think the better option is to either try another virtualization/emulation  
> solution (I gave up on Bochs x86 emulator just a few minutes ago, it was  
> too unstable and slow for my purpose) or get a used hard drive for that  
> little old PC sitting in the corner of my room.

if you run linux vblade (on sourceforge), you can use that as your disk.
vblade is a software aoe target.  not very fast, but requires only ethernet.

the main trick would be configuring the drive.
this can be done with the following commands:

	; bind -a '#æ' /dev
	; echo bind /net/ether0>/dev/aoe/ctl
	; echo config switch on spec e type aoe//dev/aoe/2.0 >/dev/sdctl 
		# creates /dev/sde0.

- erik