if the intent is to get a full understanding of what an operational Plan 9 environment is like, using VMware or Qemu to create VM's for various roles (auth/cpu, fs, term) connected by a virtual network is an excellent option. i've successfully used this setup for experimenting/testing and for demos.
-Skip On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:50 AM, David Leimbach <leim...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Duke Normandin <dukeofp...@ml1.net> wrote: >> >> Just read: >> >> http://lsub.org/magic/man2html/1/0intro >> >> [quote] >> Plan 9 is a distributed computing environment assembled from separate >> machines acting as terminals, CPU servers, and file servers.[/quote] >> >> Does the above imply, that ideally Plan9 should be running on a LAN? >> Not so good as the OS on a stand-alone box? >> -- >> Duke >> > A lot of us with just one machine to spare tend to install the system, then > build and configure a CPU/Auth/FS server on one box, or even just a VMWare > or other virtualization instance. > With plan 9 you do not have to run your CPU, authentication and file system > parts of your computing system all in one place > From there we can log into our plan 9 server using unix programs like > drawterm, or even 9vx, each of which are more or less ports of Plan 9 to > other OSes with different pros and cons. > With plan 9 you do not have to run your CPU, authentication and file system > parts of your computing system all in one place, and really, you can just > run a terminal and play around with that to get started if you like. > > > >
