Re: [9fans] Serious Problem Running Plan 9 on Virtual PC

["Eris Discordia" <eris.discordia@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:56:05 -0000, Filipp Andronov
<filipp.andronov@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks! )))
>
>> http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/9faq.html
> Unfortunately, it is not on english or russian :)
>> From page http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/ link to FAQ
> (http://www.fywss.com/plan9/plan9faq.html) is dead. :(
>
>> I downloaded plan9 image on my GNU/Linux machine.
>> http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/export/vmplan9.tbz
> I will try this at evening, but i have little question - what
> difference between that image and official one from
> pla9.bell-labs.com? :)
>
> 2008/2/4, Juan M. Mendez <vejeta@gmail.com>:
>> On 04/02/2008, Filipp Andronov <filipp.andronov@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/virtual_machines/index.html
>> > Oh! I'm really sorry!
>> > It's so shame, RTFM.... *CONFUSED*
>> > Thanks a lot  :)))
>>
>> Following the instrucions here:
>>
>> http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/9faq.html
>>
>> I downloaded plan9 image on my GNU/Linux machine.
>> http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/export/vmplan9.tbz
>>
>> $ tar xvfj vmplan9.tbz
>> $ qemu -full-screen -net nic -net user p9disk-flat.vmdk
>>
>> After that, the emulated plan9 worked smoothly and I didnt have to
>> configure
>> nothing to update plan9 with
>>
>> % pull
>>
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>>

That image file with the vmdk extension (.vmdk, that is) is actually a
VMWare virtual disk which is, out of sheer luck, on QEMU's list of
supported virtual hard disk formats. The ISO image is the semi-official
snapshot of the latest (or close to latest, depending on where you
download the image from) Plan 9 4th Edition, which is not much of a
"release." With the vmdk file you get a pre-installed, probably tailored,
Plan 9 system, while with the ISO you get it "raw." You can install from
the ISO or run it live (as with live Linux distros, such as Knoppix).

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