From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7d3530220609181906l3ff6372dpce0c33dca3de1c51@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:06:52 -0400 From: "John Floren" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <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] Virtual PC server Topicbox-Message-UUID: ba3f596e-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Question here: In your opinions, would it be possible to run a CPU/auth server (and possibly serve files) reliably and well from a Virtual PC session running Plan 9? Virtual PC is running on a newer Mac desktop machine; it would be a general, primary server for a small network of Plan 9 machines, probably netbooting some Sun machines (if we can get the Suns to boot). The alternative is to use a Pentium II that I have put together, 233 Mhz, 384 MB of RAM, 20 GB hard drive. Plan 9 is already installed on both systems, so there isn't really a compatibility problem. My main concern with the Virtual PC route is availability; any other pros or cons you guys can come up with? Thanks John Floren -- "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" -- Shakespeare, Henry VI