From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1e5fb51c21d5e84f568ff26f0f0da8a4@chula.quanstro.net> <4ECC28EB.2000305@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:49:15 +0100 Message-ID: From: Francisco J Ballesteros To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4493dd6a-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 > >