I made that page, but i think i deleted it. It isn't complete and someone
told me is not useful at all as it describes what i have done to play and not
something of "general interest".
Although the author says the HD vmware file could be 1KiB long, I needed
at least 512KiB long, because that's the size of a cylinder according to
disk/fdisk (and less than that is not allowed as I experienced).
Yes, you're right. That should be corrected.
Among my many unsuccesful tries to get everything done as described in
the wiki, it was dark for me the "Set up the nvram", because I thought I
should write the lines suggested into the nvram partition. And I also
expected that to work, so the rebooting's "error in nvram key" made me mad.
i created an nvram partition on each virtual machine that booted from network.
On the first boot, nvram will not be found, so, i created an nvram partition
and boot again, this time, nvram was found, but with no valid contents, so
plan9 asked again about auth domain and authid. But this time, it saved the
information, so the next boot, the third, worked fine.
There are other details that I didn't understood at first from the wiki
page, but it would be too a matter of opinion. As an example: what's
"First boot"? Should I reboot? As 'bootes'?
When installing a cpu standalone server you should reboot to use the new kernel,
that is the "first boot" thing. Pointers to setting up standalone cpu server should be
included in the page.
So, here you have comments from a 'newbie'. I hope they help in some sense.
If you found that page useful please consider putting your comments and experiences
with qemu to make the page complete. And fix the erroneous bits.
email me if you can't update it and i will try to fix the page.
thanks
gabi
