Re: [9fans] Adventures of a home user

[Balwinder S Dheeman <bdheeman@gmail.com>]

On 04/19/2009 09:09 PM, Jim Habegger wrote:
> Eric and Anthony, thank you.
>
> I'm stepping through the Plan 9 documentation at
> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/documentation/index.html. As you
> noticed, Anthony, I missed a step in adding a new user:
>
>     con -l /srv/fscons
>
>
> That didn't work in 9vx either, I imagine for the reasons you explained.
> I'm still way over my head here.
>
> For now I'll use QEMU to step through the Plan 9 documentation, and
> later I might use 9vx for other learning purposes. Now that I've learned
> to change the display dimensions, and use ctrl-alt, it's easy to switch
> between QEMU and my other windows. I've already created a new user.
>
> I won't push my luck tonight. I'll wait until tomorrow to try network
> configuration.

IMHO, you need not switch between your Plan 9 installation under QEMU
and 9vx; Just stick to a real Plan 9 under QEMU and this I hope will
help you better learn, experiment and, or try procedures described on
the wiki and other docs.

I don't who and why one referred you to try 9vx, an abridged version
which is far away from a real or native installation of a Plan 9 under
QEMU, KVM, XEN and, or VMWare. Many a things e.g. page, gs, mail do not
work out of the box as expected under 9vx as yet.

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