From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [9fans] small vmware images Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 16:53:07 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c81d30a2-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Hello, Every once in a while I need to run a full-blown (auth/cpu/file) servers under vmware. So far I've been managing with copying the original vmware image (1.2GB) to a new directory and booting it as a cpu server off a running instance of the first vmware image... This all worked fine, until I needed something like 6 cpu servers -- just don't have that kind of spare disk space. So I created a very small (10MB) vmware image that contains only the bare necessities to boot up from a remote system and act as either a cpu server or a terminal: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/p9/vmware/ It contains a 10MB 9fat partition and a 1 sector nvram image (download size approx 3MB). 9fat contains a simple plan9.ini that will prompt you whether you want to boot a 9pccpu or 9pcdisk kernel (you can edit this once you know your network parameters). You can find installation instructions and the images at the above URL. I'm using vmware 3 under Linux, so there is a slight chance you may not be able to boot plan9 successfully -- email me if you have any questions. If there's interest I may give you instructions (or an rc script) to create those images yourselves: you'll need a brand new vmware image and a cdrom with the plan9 bootable iso on it. andrey