On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Duke Normandin <dukeofp...@ml1.net> wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > > > >> 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. > > > > Sounds like _a lot_ of fooling around! I've set up numerous *nix LANs > > before, but don't have one at the moment. How much memory would a > > machine need to set up all those VMs?
> depending on the host os, 1g is sufficient. i've never needed to use > more than 256M for plan9 vm's. The box that I'd be using has a total of 1G RAM. If I do this, it would be on top of Xubuntu 10.10. But the VM thing doesn't really appeal to me. I could run a headless box as a Plan9 auth/cpu, fs server. Then, if I want to this Plan9 server, is there a minimum Plan9 install that I could put on the spare partition that I have? Kinda like what I had for a long time: a 486DX running FreeBSD as a mailserver; another running as a webserver; another couple running primary and slave nameservers; and one dual-homed FreeBSD box routing and doing firewall/natd. Had a couple of Linux and FreeBSD workstations hung on this LAN. Those 486DX _never_ hiccuped! (Thank you UPS!!!) The above sounds like a job for Plan9 :) But my point is - is that I don't need to set up a LAN to enjoy Linux or FreeBSD. Can I use Plan9 standalone in a dedicated partition? -- Duke
