From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:14:13 +0200 From: elbing To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] installing Plan 9 under Microsoft's free Virtual PC? In-Reply-To: <53f976bd0607240941q6967ead3ld9114079775c4814@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_53014_8939976.1153761253361" References: <53f976bd0607240941q6967ead3ld9114079775c4814@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 89ffdc6a-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ------=_Part_53014_8939976.1153761253361 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 2006/7/24, Andrew Hudson : > > 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 ------=_Part_53014_8939976.1153761253361 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline

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
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