* [9fans] Once again: running Plan 9 under VMWare, Bochs, Plex86 etc.
@ 2001-10-03 7:48 Tomas
2001-10-03 9:45 ` Vincent van Gelderen
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From: Tomas @ 2001-10-03 7:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Hello,
Having looked through that 15MB mailing list archive file, I'm
wondering if there has been any recent progress in getting Plan 9
to run through Bochs, Plex86 or (preferably) VMWare, or any other
emulator. Last time I saw this mentioned, Russ Cox was working on
getting it to work under VMWare. What's the current status?
It seems it'll take months before I get the spare hardware to do
a "real" Plan 9 install, and in the meantime I'd like to play
with the system to get a feel for it.
Sorry to be the one bringing this old topic up, but I really want
to try the system out.
/Tomas
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* Re: [9fans] Once again: running Plan 9 under VMWare, Bochs, Plex86 etc.
2001-10-03 7:48 [9fans] Once again: running Plan 9 under VMWare, Bochs, Plex86 etc Tomas
@ 2001-10-03 9:45 ` Vincent van Gelderen
2001-10-03 10:35 ` Boyd Roberts
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From: Vincent van Gelderen @ 2001-10-03 9:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Wednesday, October 03, 2001, 9:48:02 AM, you wrote:
T> Hello,
T> Having looked through that 15MB mailing list archive file, I'm
T> wondering if there has been any recent progress in getting Plan 9
T> to run through Bochs, Plex86 or (preferably) VMWare, or any other
T> emulator. Last time I saw this mentioned, Russ Cox was working on
T> getting it to work under VMWare. What's the current status?
T> It seems it'll take months before I get the spare hardware to do
T> a "real" Plan 9 install, and in the meantime I'd like to play
T> with the system to get a feel for it.
T> Sorry to be the one bringing this old topic up, but I really want
T> to try the system out.
T> /Tomas
I found the installation under Virtual PC relatively
painless. Minuses: it took long to install, and the
ethernet doesn't work.
http://www.home.zonnet.nl/v-i-n-z/
--
Best regards,
Vincent mailto:v-i-n-z@zonnet.nl
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* Re: [9fans] Once again: running Plan 9 under VMWare, Bochs, Plex86 etc.
2001-10-03 9:45 ` Vincent van Gelderen
@ 2001-10-03 10:35 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-03 14:27 ` Vincent van Gelderen
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From: Boyd Roberts @ 2001-10-03 10:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> I found the installation under Virtual PC relatively
> painless. Minuses: it took long to install, and the
> ethernet doesn't work.
long? i installed '2000 for mate off cd. it took 3 _hours_;
all that time was spent copying stuff off the cd.
long? i was on hold, but with rio and sam i could continue
to work with _just_ the mouse.
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* Re: [9fans] Once again: running Plan 9 under VMWare, Bochs, Plex86 etc.
2001-10-03 10:35 ` Boyd Roberts
@ 2001-10-03 14:27 ` Vincent van Gelderen
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From: Vincent van Gelderen @ 2001-10-03 14:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Wednesday, October 03, 2001, 12:35:24 PM, you wrote:
>> I found the installation under Virtual PC relatively
>> painless. Minuses: it took long to install, and the
>> ethernet doesn't work.
BR> long? i installed '2000 for mate off cd. it took 3 _hours_;
BR> all that time was spent copying stuff off the cd.
BR> long? i was on hold, but with rio and sam i could continue
BR> to work with _just_ the mouse.
p9 took more than 4 hours to install under VPC. Iirc a
normal install took 30-40 minutes (on the same hardware),
so long seems a good word to use.
--
Best regards,
Vincent mailto:v-i-n-z@zonnet.nl
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* Re: [9fans] Once again: running Plan 9 under VMWare, Bochs, Plex86 etc.
@ 2001-10-03 15:28 Russ Cox
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From: Russ Cox @ 2001-10-03 15:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
I have the ethernet and the vga working under VMware, but
unfortunately VMware doesn't always provide a virtual hardware
cursor. Since Plan 9 doesn't have software cursor code, we're
sort of stuck in that case. Since this observation is based on a
sample of size one, I don't really know if VMware ever
provides a virtual hardware cursor. I haven't done VGA
hardware acceleration yet either, which should help a lot
with the perceived speed, but that looks easy.
It is my current intention that the still-far-off next
release will have full VMware support, which is to say that
if nothing else happens first, the prospect of doing a new release
will be enough of a kick for me to write the missing bits of code.
When I did the VMware support, I changed aux/vga to
recognize cards based on PCI device identifiers (in addition
to the old BIOS-string method). This should help quite a
bit with not having to edit vgadb for supported cards.
If people who already have the system installed would
like to play with running a CPU server under VMware, I will
make the ethernet driver available. At least then you
could drawterm into your virtual CPU server.
Russ
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