Installing in parallels desktop on Mac OS X
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#INTRODUCTION
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#Parallels is a virtual-machine hypervisor that allows one to run
#multiple operating systems concurrently.
#
#Plan 9 now runs well on Parallels 4 and 5, including PXE booting of
#diskless emulated Plan 9 machines. It may be necessary to configure
#devices in all four standard IDE slots (first two controllers,
#master and slave devices) to avoid killing the virtual machine.
#
#The 3xxx build series for Parallels works flawlessly with Plan 9. As
#for the 4xxx build series (Parallels Version 3), Plan 9 frequently
#crashes and works unreliably. Try turning off VT-x acceleration in
#this case. Plan 9 works on the 5xxx build series without problems.
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#INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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# *	Obtain the Plan 9 nightly CD image and attach it to Parallels as
#	the CDROM drive (don't bother burning it).
# *	Change the boot order to boot the CDROM drive first then start
#	the VM.
# *	Follow the normal installation rules for Plan 9
# *	Parallels 3.0 will only boot from a CD attached as sdC1, but
#	9load (the Plan 9 boot loader) will try to boot into sdD0. In that
#	case, you'll have to explicitly tell 9load where to find the cd
#	image at the 'boot from:' prompt:
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#! 		sdC1!cdboot!9pccd.gz
# *	I had trouble formatting the disk until I remade it without the
#	expanding option.
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#CONFIGURATION SETTINGS IN PLAN 9
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#In your plan9.ini file set the following:
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# *	mouseport=ps2intellimouse
# *	monitor=vesa
# *	*nomp=1
# *	vgasize=1024x768x24
#
#The resolution actually depends on the resolution of your Mac. Look
#in the 'Displays' section of 'System Preferences' for a list of
#valid resolutions. I was able to get a resolution of 1440x852
#working on my Macbook Pro 17" this way. For the maximum resolution
#of 1680x1050 however, I had to add it to the custom video resolution
#list in the 'Video' options of Parallels. All resolutions work with
#a depth of 24 (32 never works for some reason). At 1680x1050, you
#can run Plan 9 in fullscreen! On a plain MacBook,
#vgasize=1280x800x32 works well for fullscreen.
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#The CD-ROM, Ethernet and VESA video work out of the box. The only
#thing left to do is configure audio.
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#CONFIGURING AUDIO SUPPORT
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#You need to grab the AC'97 sound driver from aki's site on 9grid
#(down as of 20080920, any alternate download locations?):
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#! cd /sys/src/9/pc
#! hget -o audio.h http://9grid.net/aki/src/9/pc/audio.h
#! hget -o audioac97.c http://9grid.net/aki/src/9/pc/audioac97.c
#! hget -o audioac97mix.c http://9grid.net/aki/src/9/pc/audioac97mix.c
#! hget -o ../port/devaudio.c http://9grid.net/aki/src/9/port/devaudio.c
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#Now edit your pcf configuration and add the driver to the link
#section:
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#! link
#! 		audioac97	audioac97mix
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#and build the kernel:
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#! mk 'CONF=pcf'
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#Replace your old kernel with the new one:
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#! 9fat:
#! cp 9pcf /n/9fat/
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#You may want to add this line to your lib/profile:
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#! bind -a '#A' /dev
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#Get madplay from contrib on sources to play mp3s.
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