[9fans] Drawterm or VMWare terminal?

[Robby <rtr@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Hi,

I am wondering if it is worthwhile to boot a VMWare Plan 9 at work
from my home network or if using drawterm is better.

I have a CPU/Auth server sitting in my home network behind a NAT
router with port forwarding (Netgear RT311). At the moment I am
forwarding ports 567 and 17013 to the CPU/Auth server and I can use
drawterm on my NT box at work to connect.

I have also started playing with VMWare. Would it be sensible to boot
a proper terminal across the long wires of the internet? Which ports
would I need to forward and how much does that open my local home
network up to the world?

As far as I can see, two options are available for running the
terminal under VMWare: 1. Boot a VMWare local 9pc kernel, but take the
root from il. 2. Get the kernel from my home server as well.

With just the two ports 567 and 17013 forwarded, I can't get the
VMWare kernel to connect to my home server. At the question "root is
from (il, local):" I type "il", and then get asked about my filesystem
and auth server IP addresses, to which I provide the IP address to my
router. I then get a "boot: can't connect to file server: protocol
unreachable" error.

Thanks for any help,
Robby