From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4ff6efe6c7ea3550ae2823dad8319d55@9netics.com> References: <13426df10910042304u450905c7yb74d293867dcc996@mail.gmail.com> <4ff6efe6c7ea3550ae2823dad8319d55@9netics.com> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 17:19:09 +0900 Message-ID: From: YAMANASHI Takeshi <9.nashi@gmail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9 on vmware esx Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7e6b411a-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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. --=20 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 = 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. =A0So I removed the CD-ROM drive from = VM's >>> >>> if this is the case, it seems simple enough to fix. =A0can anyone confi= rm? >> >> Yes, I saw that problem as well. >> >> ron > > interesting. =A0i just tried it and it works. =A0the admin tool > (lab manager) wont allow the cd drive to be removed > but assigning a .iso to it works as well. > > i wonder why? > > > --=20 YAMANASHI Takeshi