Virtual Bell Labs Plan 9 Server Under X86 Linux

David L. Craig,
document originator

Abstract

A cookbook to install a current Bell Labs Plan 9 system into a fully-virtualized machine running in an X86 GNU / Linux environment, including cpu, auth, and fs services with real network connectivity via a virtual (bridged) Ethernet interface. Some experience with Linux system administration is expected, as well as some exposure to the concepts of virtualization, but no familiarity with Plan 9 or virtual networking is necessary. The goal is to quickly provide a full Plan 9 environment for someone to explore to learn just what Plan 9 is.

Except where otherwise noted, content in this document is licensed under the standard Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Source code (scripts) are licensed under GPLv2.
Glenda image courtesy of Lucent / Bell Labs.
Tux image courtesy of Georgi D. Georgiev, aka "hip0" in his penguins subdirectory – copyright uncertain.

Virtual Bell Labs Plan 9 Server Under X86 Linux

The most recent version of this document will be offered at http://dlc.casita.net/~dlc/vp9cb/

If the green on black style is unconfortable for you like it was for Scott Elcomb, click over to http://projects.psema4.com/plan9/vp9cb/ where he graciously put up a modified mirror that changes the rendition of HTML text to black on white.

You can download the entire directory tarball (~25MB) and use a file:///... URL if you want to tweak anything (like the colors—look inside the vp9cb.css file for that stuff).

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