From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 15:38:35 -0500 From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <20080708201553.GA69211@mero.morphisms.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5a03888bc4077fcac1298b2e80fc34aa@quanstro.net> <20080708201553.GA69211@mero.morphisms.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] why not Lvx for Plan 9? Topicbox-Message-UUID: dfb85072-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:15 PM, William Josephson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 03:03:45PM -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: >> I setup every machine on my network to tftpboot (BIOS), and they all >> tftpboot a kernel+ramdisk which has everything necessary to startup >> lguest/kvm plan9 and passthrough I/O requests to the disk/network. >> Admin done. > > I've found setting up diskless boot with Linux to be a major > pain with most of the common distributions. I guess it has > been a while since I last looked: how do you make it work > reliably with updates without effectively rolling your own > distribution? > I didn't do the grunt work on this one, my friends in Germany built the setup to run xcpu, but it can be adapted just as easily to run the KVM drones. Mind you, the "distribution" in this case is hardly anything -- just the necessary tools to start lguest/kvm and get tun/tap working properly to get to the underlying network. You should effectively be able to build this by hand with any distro. -eric