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From: Adriano Verardo <adr.verardo@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Sat,  3 Sep 2016 03:50:05 +0200
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs
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cinap_lenrek@felloff.net wrote:
>> What VMare version do you use ?
> VMware Player 6.0.2 build-1744117. win7 64 bit.
> ....
> but what difference does it make? you have to look at the evidence, not
> version numbers that dont tell you anything.
Absolutely true, it makes no difference. But I'm trying to fulfill a
crazy request
of a client ... being sure that he will throw away all old stuff in a
few months.
So I'm looking for a whatever, time inexpensive solution.

Anyway, as you suggested, the problem seems to be the downloaded bz2.

Downloaded again. SHA not verified
Repeated 4 times the install procedure following - slavishly - my notes
with several changes in the virtual hw config.
Perfectly up and running 4 times in a few minutes each.

For who could find it useful, this works

  * Windows 7 *32 bit*
  * VMware 9.0.4
  * 9front-5368.b4963e7e3204.iso.bz2
  * cwfs64x
  * VM: 1GB Ram, 8GB IDE HD, mbr, USB2.0, NIC

Thanks a lot to cinap and all other 9fans who kindly spent their time to
help.

adriano