Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive

2016-08-28 Thread erik quanstrom
>We still run Ken’s file server that Erik modified into a diskless file >server using our AoE appliances behind it. I develop on Plan 9 >exclusively. And we use it as a distributed operating system running on >about a dozen machines. i'm running ken's file server on a port to amd64. - erik

Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive

2016-08-28 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Aug 23 12:35:51 PDT 2016, s...@9front.org wrote: > Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > > > In fact the population of 9fans in > >my > >neighborhood has doubled. > > Shades of damned lies and statistics? i can verify. we're in the same neighborhood. :-) - erik

Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive

2016-08-28 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Aug 25 17:41:51 PDT 2016, k...@westryn.net wrote: > On Aug 24, 2016, at 7:54 AM, Nickolas Peter > wrote: > > > > Brantley, > > > > Wow, that's really impressive. Thanks for sharing. Would you say that > > Supermicro hardware supports Plan 9 well, or did it take a lot of hacking > > and

Re: [9fans] vmware shared folders

2016-08-28 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sun Aug 28 01:58:51 PDT 2016, 9...@9netics.com wrote: > > I also have the VMware code for plan9 from russ. he felt it is not enough > > time had passed to release it. VMware has changed over the years and the > > plan9 code needs to be updated. > > a lot of the secret sauce code seems to be a

Re: [9fans] vmware shared folders

2016-08-28 Thread Adriano Verardo
my motto is: when in doubt, blame windows; so probably yes. Pure truth ... In the meantime I've installed VMware 9.0.4 on Win7-32. All works as expected using the same Plan9.iso. Plan 9 sees local and remote Win7-32 shared folders. This probably confirm that the problem is Win7-64. Or, perhap

Re: [9fans] vmware shared folders

2016-08-28 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
> I also have the VMware code for plan9 from russ. he felt it is not enough > time had passed to release it. VMware has changed over the years and the > plan9 code needs to be updated. a lot of the secret sauce code seems to be available now (LGPL license): https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-too

Re: [9fans] vmware shared folders

2016-08-28 Thread Steve Simon
next week I will help, I wrote CICS so I should be able to sort it out. I am on holiday at the moment so I cannot do much now but sympathise. -Steve On 28 Aug 2016, at 09:16, Skip Tavakkolian <9...@9netics.com> wrote: >> * boxB doesn't see no boxA shared folders. > > i would start there. once

Re: [9fans] vmware shared folders

2016-08-28 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
> * boxB doesn't see no boxA shared folders. i would start there. once it's fixed, it will most likely fix the problem on plan9 side too. > Coud the one guilty be the Win7-64 on BoxA ? my motto is: when in doubt, blame windows; so probably yes.