From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: Patrick Kelly To: "'Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs'" <9fans@9fans.net> References: In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 10:38:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Running plan9 within Hyper-V Topicbox-Message-UUID: c931e606-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >Hi, > >Was planning to have a stab at running / using plan9 and am struggling = to find compatible hardware (I want to use a laptop). Anyway, I have a = win8.1 pro laptop and though about using Hyper-V as the VM for running = plan9. I was just wondering if I was being an idiot >for even attempting = it (the Hyper-V bit, not the plan9 bit!) ? > >Any advice welcome. To the best of my ability, I could never get it running on either Win = 8.1 or WinServer 2012r2's Hyper-V, regardless of Gen1 or Gen2. Microsoft = made changes to the platform, because it was possible back in the Win 7 = era.