From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:04:16 -0400 From: Russ Cox To: Jack Johnson , 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? In-Reply-To: <6e35c062050420211121f0e408@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <6e35c06205042015016c42049a@mail.gmail.com> <6e35c062050420211121f0e408@mail.gmail.com> Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3f3208e4-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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. =20 > Charon supports Gmail now, so I'm getting closer.... It does !?!? In full mode or in Gmail's "stupid web browser" mode? Russ