Re: [9fans] Plan9 on Microsoft Virtual PC 2004

["John Floren" <slawmaster@gmail.com>]

On 8/3/06, Drew Hohmann <drew@med-associates.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> Has anyone had any luck getting plan9 to work in Virtual PC 2004?  It's
> the easiest way for me to get started with it, but on my 3.4GHz
> hyper-threaded P4, plan9 installs ok but then when it's finished and
> reboots I get constant disk errors (Virtual PC is setup with a fixed
> size 4GB hd, and I'm installing fossil+venturi).
> On my 900MHz P3 (still using VirtualPC), plan9 installed ok, then I
> rebooted, logged in as glenda, created a new account, and entered
> fshalt.  fshalt sat their synchronizing, and 24hrs later was still
> sitting there busy synchronizing (Virtual PC was setup with a 6GB fixed
> size hd, and fossil+venturi was installed).
>
> Has anyone had any luck with Virtual PC?  I'd really like to use
> fossil+venturi in a production system, so just installing fossil alone
> isn't worth it.
>
> Thanks for any help.
> Drew
>

Well, I think the synchronizing problems with fshalt could be because
fossil dumps to venti at the first boot; this takes a very long time
and would take a lot longer on a virtual machine. I don't know if
fshalt stops the process; if it doesn't, I assume it would wait for
the dump to finish.

John
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