Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

[Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>]

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.

-Skip

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:50 AM, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@ml1.net> wrote:
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>> Just read:
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>> http://lsub.org/magic/man2html/1/0intro
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>> [quote]
>> Plan 9 is a distributed computing environment assembled from separate
>> machines acting as terminals, CPU servers, and file servers.[/quote]
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>> Does the above imply, that ideally Plan9 should be running on a LAN?
>> Not so good as the OS on a stand-alone box?
>> --
>> Duke
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> A lot of us with just one machine to spare tend to install the system, then
> build and configure a CPU/Auth/FS server on one box, or even just a VMWare
> or other virtualization instance.
> With plan 9 you do not have to run your CPU, authentication and file system
> parts of your computing system all in one place
> From there we can log into our plan 9 server using unix programs like
> drawterm, or even 9vx, each of which are more or less ports of Plan 9 to
> other OSes with different pros and cons.
> With plan 9 you do not have to run your CPU, authentication and file system
> parts of your computing system all in one place, and really, you can just
> run a terminal and play around with that to get started if you like.
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