From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7d3530220608031553u33e6c189v86b88327b83a85b5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 15:53:26 -0700 From: "John Floren" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 on Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 In-Reply-To: <44D26194.5030007@med-associates.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <599f06db0608030708k59bca74ejbae0b8b9ffba4216@mail.gmail.com> <44D20A95.3000505@asgaard.homelinux.org> <599f06db0608030925y2931850ds4fcde1d6bab85c64@mail.gmail.com> <44D26194.5030007@med-associates.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 95986a38-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 8/3/06, Drew Hohmann 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 -- "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" -- Shakespeare, Henry VI