> I sort of half tried on one of the dev. ESX boxes at work -- probably > three or four year ago, got it as far as hanging part way through the > install CD boot sequence and then someone said "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" > and I quickly pretended it was a work-oriented linux box and removed > it shortly afterwards.
Plan 9 fails if it thinks there's a CD-ROM in its VM. Something in VMware confuses it and no one has looked deep enough to fix it. It works extremely well in many other respects. I know I can blow the NetBSD VM by feeding it too much FTP traffic (I'm stuck in a NetBSD 3.1 time warp, so fixing it is just not about to happen), I don't use the Plan 9 server frequently enough to know how robust it is. So far there have been no problems. ++L
