Re: [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions

[Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org>]

But, if you want more than one core, be sure you
install the CL I sent (which has not yet been applied).

I'll commit it later today so you could get SMP without
applying any CL by hand.

>
> I use it as follows:
> hg clone http://googlecode.com/p/nix-os nix-os
> cd nix-os
> ./9vx.OSX10.6 -r . -u rminnich
> (get on the machine)
> objtype=386
> cd /sys/src/ape/lib
> mk install
> cd /sys/src
> objtype=amd64
> mk install
> cd /sys/src/nix/k10
> mk install
>
> You are then good to go, unless I missed a step. You need some 386
> bits from ape to build the 64-bit code.
>
> We've set up nix-os root file system to play nice with 9vx, which is
> why we include a 9vx for osx in the file system.
>
> so to repeat: nix-os is a mercurial image of a root file system for
> 32-bit nodes, and it is intended to make it easy for you to boot
> 64-bit nodes. We assumed that you had at least one 32-bit and one
> 64-bit system.
>
> I hope this helps a little.
>
> ron
>
>