Re: [9fans] Anatomy of a vblade image

2008-07-15 Thread erik quanstrom
> Indeed, > I have been toying around with the idea of building a larger scale > version of Mr. Minnich's lunchbox using Mini-ITX boards.. > But I have no justification, since virtually everything i need to do > with plan 9 happens impossibly fast on just a simple vmware instance. > Plan9 is suffic

Re: [9fans] Anatomy of a vblade image

2008-07-15 Thread John Waters
Indeed, I have been toying around with the idea of building a larger scale version of Mr. Minnich's lunchbox using Mini-ITX boards.. But I have no justification, since virtually everything i need to do with plan 9 happens impossibly fast on just a simple vmware instance. Plan9 is sufficiently speed

Re: [9fans] Anatomy of a vblade image

2008-07-15 Thread erik quanstrom
> In the Linux world kvlade looks the way to go for performance but it > didn't work on AMD64 when I tried it. I guess the Coraid boxes make Plan > 9 go fast enough so I just need to stop worrying about it. plan 9 is a good platform; it is very speedy and doesn't do anything to you. we didn't nee

Re: [9fans] Anatomy of a vblade image

2008-07-15 Thread matt
(In the opposite style to usual, this was meant to go to the list, not private :) i didn't want to sound over-confident. but vblade is very simple; i don't see how it could have data-loosing bugs. I can't even remember how I made it blue-screen but I managed it a couple of times. I think o

Re: [9fans] Anatomy of a vblade image

2008-07-13 Thread matt
erik quanstrom wrote: I'm serving drives to WinXP64 via AOE with http://winaoe.org/ I've had a few blue screens but I think they have been caused by the server side serving bad data. what do you mean by "server side"? My dodgy programming :> I'm hacking around in vblade.c Sorry, I se

Re: [9fans] Anatomy of a vblade image

2008-07-13 Thread erik quanstrom
> I'm serving drives to WinXP64 via AOE with http://winaoe.org/ > I've had a few blue screens but I think they have been caused by the > server side serving bad data. what do you mean by "server side"? > If the vblade goes away after being > mounted the NT kernel keeps trying to read it which

Re: [9fans] Anatomy of a vblade image

2008-07-13 Thread matt
however you can use the -i switch to initialize a blank file. (you're free to use a raw disk or partition, too.) - erik or say "damn, where did my partition table go !" I can't remember if I lost any work :) strings /dev/sdC0/plan9 will let me know eventually ! note to self, be more car

Re: [9fans] Anatomy of a vblade image

2008-07-11 Thread erik quanstrom
> I shuold just mail quanstro I guess but maybe someone made a tool > > /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/src/vblade > > The vblades served by this particular vblade require some magic in the > first few bytes. > Vblade on other platforms will quite happily serve a bunch of zeros > > Anybody got a sc

[9fans] Anatomy of a vblade image

2008-07-11 Thread matt
I shuold just mail quanstro I guess but maybe someone made a tool /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/src/vblade The vblades served by this particular vblade require some magic in the first few bytes. Vblade on other platforms will quite happily serve a bunch of zeros Anybody got a script for making