2006/7/24, Andrew Hudson <ahudson.inc@gmail.com>:
>
> Since Microsoft just decided to release its Virtual PC virtualization
> product for free I decided to give it a spin and see how Plan 9 worked
> as a virtualized OS. I downloaded Virtual PC from here
> (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/downloads/sp1.mspx) and
> installed it on a Proliant server with a 2.4 GHz Xeon processor, 1.3
> GB of RAM, and a 15K SCSI disk, Windows 2000 Server. Virtual PC
> complained that it was only supported on Windows 2003 and Windows XP
> but seemed to install fine.
>
> At the partdisk prompt I was not able to install a Master Boot Record
> (mbr) in Virtual PC's virtual disk partition and so the installation
> stopped dead. Does anyone have any insight to this problem or a
> possible work-aounrd? Running Plan 9 under the now free Virtual PC
> would eliminate a lot of hardware compatibility headaches and make
> Plan 9 more accessible to a large number of people running Windows.
>
> - Andrew




I've got running Plan9 in a Virtual PC 5.3.582.27 (not free), with XP in an
Acer Aspire AMD 2.0GHz (Sempron 3000, 1GB RAM) and tipycal hardware. When it
asked me about mbr, it offered to create a new mbr, I said "y" and
installation continued without problems. It copied filesystem very slow,
around one hour.

Elbing