Nah, still not getting it. Thanks for your replies, I do appreciate it, but I think I'll just stick to plan9port and abandon the plan 9 thing.
Cheers,Steve.

> Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 11:43:54 +0100
> From: begnoc@gmail.com
> To: 9fans@9fans.net
> Subject: Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive?
> 
> Oh and use the 'mt server' nic in virtualbox, and you have to run a
> cpu server and set up auth to use drawterm. It is covered on the wiki
> i belive
> 
> 2014-03-09 11:11 GMT+01:00, Mark van Atten <vanattenmark@gmail.com>:
> > To obtain shared folders, you may also decide to run, either on
> > Windows or Lubuntu, a program named drawterm:
> >
> > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/8/drawterm
> > http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/drawterm/index.html
> > http://swtch.com/drawterm/
> >
> > It connects your host to the virtual Plan 9 machine, and draws a Plan
> > 9 terminal on the host. In that terminal you have access to the host's
> > file system again in /mnt/term
> >
> > Mark.
> >
> >
>