From: Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on ESX?
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:28:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGGHmKEuQt70bAA=q=SBWs2B+xuNQZ1137LwMA7r0aKFdUzRJA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJJ04x6KLGjOSFYHXQp7P+7RZBWJF1NAdFq9+tA8oj1dAy5cWA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:30 PM, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone doing this? I've had a crazy, no ZANY, notion of running ESX as my
> host OS, then spinning up all the various windows, freebsd, or Plan 9's that
> I need as necessary on my work workstation.
Hi Dave,
Yes it's been done and it works fairly well, though you need to avoid
use of aux/vmware*. The biggest issue is that fossil tends to be
fairly unstable when mixed with sdmylex and use of more than one vcpu
results in some rather undesirable behavior of the spinning variety. I
have a kernel posted in contrib (contrib/stallion/386/9vmcpuf) for
exactly this purpose. The kernel is minimal, and supports etherigbe,
sdmylex, and a hacked up kfs to support longer filenames (NAMELEN is
56).
Installation is fairly straightforward if you're used to doing it
manually! If you're interested, let me know and I'll send out the
steps to install the current distribution onto kfs (same rules
generally apply for cwfs or any other file system). This might save
you a bit of time reverse engineering the installer.
I used this setup for about a year or so before finally cracking and
putting together an Atom system I keep racked in the closet. YMMV.
Cheers,
Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-28 5:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-27 21:30 David Leimbach
2012-03-27 22:38 ` Adrian Tritschler
2012-03-27 21:46 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-03-27 21:49 ` cinap_lenrek
[not found] ` <CA+FnbRMkcgQ2KueOnA=DB+udoD5Zw=LQu7vG7FKOEceaOEAmiw@mail.gmail.c>
2012-03-28 4:38 ` erik quanstrom
2012-03-28 4:53 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2012-03-28 5:28 ` Steven Stallion [this message]
2012-03-28 12:22 ` Richard Miller
[not found] ` <CAGGHmKEuQt70bAA=q=SBWs2B+xuNQZ1137LwMA7r0aKFdUzRJA@mail.gmail.c>
2012-03-28 5:41 ` erik quanstrom
2012-03-28 5:46 ` Steven Stallion
2012-03-28 4:22 Lucio De Re
2012-03-28 4:27 Lucio De Re
2012-03-28 12:20 ` Richard Miller
2012-03-28 12:23 ` Richard Miller
2012-03-28 4:29 Lucio De Re
2012-03-28 4:46 Lucio De Re
2012-03-28 5:18 ` erik quanstrom
2012-03-28 4:53 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-03-28 4:56 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-03-28 13:37 ` erik quanstrom
2012-03-28 5:11 erik quanstrom
2012-03-28 5:24 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2012-03-28 10:31 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
[not found] ` <CAEAzY3_ake0cG6fPrAiLbkq+HZePwauAt4eo8=MrwFyG64y2hg@mail.gmail.c>
2012-03-28 13:28 ` erik quanstrom
2012-03-28 18:26 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2012-03-28 18:28 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
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