Virtual machines
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#Plan 9 can be installed on a variety of virtual machines. For the
#moment, this page collects links to the various pages related to the
#subject.
#
#9VX
#
# *	[9vx] provides a Plan 9 kernel running in user-mode.
#
#XEN
#
# *	[Installing in Xen]
# *	[Installing in Xen 3.0]
#
#QEMU/KVM
#
#For installation instructions, see
# *	[Installing Plan 9 on Qemu]
# *	[Installing Plan B on Qemu]
#
#If you configure a cpu server ([Configuring a standalone CPU
#server]), you can run it from a terminal by adding a line
#! console=0
#to plan9.ini and invoking the virtual machine with option
#-nographic. Note that you need to configure Qemu networking to allow
#connections to the virtual machine.
#
#PARALLELS
#
#See [Installing in Parallels Desktop on Mac OS X] for installation
#instructions. There are also some possibly outdated instructions at
#[Plan 9 on Parallels |
#http://www.tip9ug.jp/who/leimy/parallels.html].
#
#Note that <Del> is <fn>+<Bksp>.
#
#VMWARE
#
# *	[VMWare]
# *	[vmware4]
# *	[Vmware_playground_for_plan9]
# *	[Dual booting bare machine and vmware]
#
#VIRTUAL BOX
#
# *	[installing plan 9 in a virtualbox]
#
#Note, in particular, the warning about VirtualBox being often
#broken, with behavior very dependent on exact versions of things. If
#at all possible, you are advised to use a different VM.
#
#VIRTUAL BOX on OS X
#
#I used VirtualBox 4.1.6 (with a matching extension pack). This is
#the latest version at present(2011/11/24). Installed a stock
#plan9.iso (made on 2011/11/12).
#
#Settings:
# *	Chipset: PIIX3
# *	Enable IO APIC
# *	select both buttons on h/w virtualization
# *	IDE ctrlr: PIIX4, use host I/O cache
# *	hard disk on IDE primary master
# *	cdrom on IDE secondary master
# *	network: bridge adapter
# *	Adapter type: intel pro/1000 MT server or desktop
# *	Enable USB, select USB 2.0
#
#Other settings may also work.
#
#During installation choose Fossil only (I had lot of trouble with
#fossil + venti, where it dies very early during distcopy).
#Everything else was basically defaulted.
#
#Even with just fossil I see fossil write errors once in a while but
#fossil/flchk doesn't show any errors.
#
#Don't forget to turn on venti on reboot (Yon can use p9p venti --
#unless you have a physical machine running plan9, running venti
#natively on the host is faster). For venti add the following to
#plan9.ini
#
#! venti=tcp!<venti-server-ip-addr>!17034
#
#Use the numeric ip-address for your venti-server. and telling fossil
#to use venti & set up a regular snapshots
#
#! fossil/conf /dev/sdC0/fossil > fs.cfg
#! ed fs.cfg <<EOF
#! /open/s/-V/-AWP/p
#! a
#! fsys main snaptime -a hhmm -s 1440
#! .
#! EOF
#! fossil/conf -w /dev/sdC0/fossil fs.cfg
#
#Replace hhmm with the time you want to take a snapshot.
#