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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:44:29 -0800
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From: Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology
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depending on the host os, 1g is sufficient. i've never needed to use
more than 256M for plan9 vm's.

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@ml1.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
>
>> if the intent is to get a full understanding of what an operational
>> Plan 9 environment is like, using VMware or Qemu to create VM's for
>> various roles (auth/cpu, fs, term) connected by a virtual network is
>> an excellent option. I've successfully used this setup for
>> experimenting/testing and for demos.
>
> Sounds like _a lot_ of fooling around! I've set up numerous *nix LANs
> before, but don't have one at the moment. How much memory would a
> machine need to set up all those VMs?
> --
> Duke
>
>