Re: [9fans] plan9 on vmware esx

[YAMANASHI Takeshi <9.nashi@gmail.com>]

> but assigning a .iso to it works as well.

I don't know if this is related to the empty CD-ROM drive problem or not,
but ESX3.5 FDD is painfuly slow.  It takes a long time for a cpu
server to boot from floppy.
The booting process looked almost hanged up.
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On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:30 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>>>> Do you have the CD-ROM drive attached to the VM while you boot it?
>>>>
>>>> I remember Plan 9 didn't start when you have an empty CD-ROM drive
>>>> connected to the VM on ESX 3.5.  So I removed the CD-ROM drive from VM's
>>>
>>> if this is the case, it seems simple enough to fix.  can anyone confirm?
>>
>> Yes, I saw that problem as well.
>>
>> ron
>
> interesting.  i just tried it and it works.  the admin tool
> (lab manager) wont allow the cd drive to be removed
> but assigning a .iso to it works as well.
>
> i wonder why?
>
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YAMANASHI Takeshi