From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com>,
Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] slightly ot: how can I get vmware 4.5?
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:04:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a050421060480348c8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6e35c062050420211121f0e408@mail.gmail.com>
> To be honest, I can't recall what the -L option does and I didn't test
> the audio, and 54 MB of RAM is a little lean, but it was easily enough
> to boot. I've found that QEMU often errors out if the guest OS isn't
> given a hard drive image, possibly from drive probe failure, but the
> drive size does not need to be large if you'll be running live from CD
> or floppy.
The need for a disk image might be fixed.
> the virtual machine. I have found some guest OSes have trouble
> determining the drive geometry under QEMU and you end up having to do
> something like 'qemu -hdachs 8367,16,63 c.img' to get everything
> working. They also seem to tweak the command line options from
> version to version, so you may find other options that either change
> or improve behavior under Windows.
Plan 9 doesn't need -hdachs, for what it's worth.
> Charon supports Gmail now, so I'm getting closer....
It does !?!? In full mode or in Gmail's "stupid web browser" mode?
Russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-21 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-20 22:01 Jack Johnson
2005-04-21 0:58 ` Kenji Okamoto
2005-04-21 4:11 ` Jack Johnson
2005-04-21 12:43 ` [9fans] using qemu Robert Raschke
2005-04-21 12:47 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-04-21 13:06 ` Russ Cox
2005-04-21 13:20 ` Robert Raschke
2005-04-21 14:29 ` David Leimbach
2005-04-25 15:25 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2005-04-25 15:36 ` Russ Cox
[not found] ` <a4e6962a05042508507d15acf9@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <ee9e417a050425090238883796@mail.gmail.com>
2005-04-25 16:07 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2005-04-21 21:09 ` Jack Johnson
2005-04-21 13:04 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2005-04-21 13:28 ` [9fans] slightly ot: how can I get vmware 4.5? C H Forsyth
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-19 9:01 Robert Raschke
2005-04-19 15:00 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-04-19 20:24 ` Derek Fawcus
2005-04-19 20:48 ` Robert Raschke
2005-04-20 4:16 ` David Leimbach
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