Re: [9fans] installing Plan 9 under Microsoft's free Virtual PC?

["Paweł Lasek" <pawel.lasek@gmail.com>]

On 7/24/06, elbing <elbingmiss@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've got running Plan9 in a Virtual PC 5.3.582.27 (not free), with XP in an
> Acer Aspire AMD 2.0GHz (Sempron 3000, 1GB RAM) and tipycal hardware. When it
> asked me about mbr, it offered to create a new mbr, I said "y" and
> installation continued without problems. It copied filesystem very slow,
> around one hour.

Normal, at least for me - never got Plan 9 to copy itself faster than
nosebleed (since I never had time to delve into it, I left it as-is),
no matter on what it was installed...

tried hardware:
Celeron 1100 MHz, 256MB RAM, 5400 4.3GB ata-disk (slow drive, about 10
MB/s peak?) - I stopped checking how much time passed and found myself
a long book (after around 1 hour)
the same - under Xen 2.0.7, same disk (needed to left it to work at night)
the same - under Qemu w/o kqemu, disk image on 7,200 120 GB ata-drive
(maybe not a speed demon, but fast drive) (all night work again)

Compaq Proliant 1850R (netbsd xen 2.0.7 host), 1x Pentium II 400 MHz,
32 MB ram, installing with disk being an image on UFS at 7,200 SCSI
4,3GB (got plan9 installed after over 2 hrs)
> Elbing
>


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Paul Lasek