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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:27:52 +0200
From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on ESX?
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> I sort of half tried on one of the dev. ESX boxes at work -- probably
> three or four year ago, got it as far as hanging part way through the
> install CD boot sequence and then someone said "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
> and I quickly pretended it was a work-oriented linux box and removed
> it shortly afterwards.

Plan 9 fails if it thinks there's a CD-ROM in its VM. Something in
VMware confuses it and no one has looked deep enough to fix it.  It
works extremely well in many other respects.

I know I can blow the NetBSD VM by feeding it too much FTP traffic
(I'm stuck in a NetBSD 3.1 time warp, so fixing it is just not about
to happen), I don't use the Plan 9 server frequently enough to know
how robust it is.  So far there have been no problems.

++L