On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:30 PM, David Leimbach <leim...@gmail.com> wrote: > Anyone doing this? I've had a crazy, no ZANY, notion of running ESX as my > host OS, then spinning up all the various windows, freebsd, or Plan 9's that > I need as necessary on my work workstation.
Hi Dave, Yes it's been done and it works fairly well, though you need to avoid use of aux/vmware*. The biggest issue is that fossil tends to be fairly unstable when mixed with sdmylex and use of more than one vcpu results in some rather undesirable behavior of the spinning variety. I have a kernel posted in contrib (contrib/stallion/386/9vmcpuf) for exactly this purpose. The kernel is minimal, and supports etherigbe, sdmylex, and a hacked up kfs to support longer filenames (NAMELEN is 56). Installation is fairly straightforward if you're used to doing it manually! If you're interested, let me know and I'll send out the steps to install the current distribution onto kfs (same rules generally apply for cwfs or any other file system). This might save you a bit of time reverse engineering the installer. I used this setup for about a year or so before finally cracking and putting together an Atom system I keep racked in the closet. YMMV. Cheers, Steve
