Do you (or anyone else) have a recipe for getting qemu to do a real netboot (as opposed to using a tiny partition to store a 9fat and netbooting from that)? I have tried and haven’t been able to work it out.
> On Jan 14, 2025, at 15:54, Ori Bernstein <o...@orib.dev> wrote: > > Netbooting is comfortable for this -- both on emulation and on real hardware. > >> On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:08:51 -0800 >> Paul Lalonde <paul.a.lalo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Your email is timely. >> Yes, I just got enough init going to realize that it doesn't set up the MP >> tables. >> No now I need to figure out a flow with qemu, I guess. >> >> On Tue, Jan 14, 2025, 3:07 p.m. Stuart Morrow <morrow.stu...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Are you aware vmx is inherently single-core >>> >>> On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 at 18:01, Paul Lalonde <paul.a.lalo...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Credit where credit is due: this is made possible by the outstanding >>> work the 9front crew have done at making a stable working distribution with >>> all the bells and whistles - drawterm from my various desktop and mobile >>> devices, git for revision management, vmx for testing, and an encouraging >>> and useful IRC channel. >>>> >>>> I haven't written code properly in a plan9 environment for 20 years, and >>> this is very pleasant. >>>> >>>> Thank you all! >>>> >>>> Paul >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 11:53 p.m. Ron Minnich <rminn...@p9f.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Paul has taken us a whole lot further. Be sure to do a pull. 13,000 or >>>>> so removed files later, NIX is now just a small layer over a standard >>>>> 9front distro. >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM Ron Minnich <rminn...@p9f.org> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM <tlaro...@kergis.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Note: I will work for sure some hours on it on week-ends, mainly on >>>>>>> Sundays. I may happen to work on it supplementary to that when time >>>>>>> permits---or because I'm bored at what I'm doing currently. So >>> silence >>>>>>> from me for days will not be a sign that I dropped the ball and if >>>>>>> someone beats me at what I was planning to do, I will simply take >>> the next >>>>>>> "reachable" (for me) problem remaining. >>>>>> >>>>>> That's precisely what I was hoping to hear. You just defined a >>>>>> sustainable model for contributing. >>>> >>>> 9fans / 9fans / see discussions + participants + delivery options >>> Permalink > > > -- > Ori Bernstein <o...@eigenstate.org> ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Ted30b22de106b2db-M2d3054a44131021d6c701588 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
