Quick and dirty 9front setup commands I use. Official documentation and other blogposts show more complete and functional setups.
The commands assume the following:
- You have
9front.386.isoin your working directory. You can get this from the 9front releases page - You want the VM to be stored in
$HOME/9front.qcow2.img. - You want to use KVM for virtualization.
To boot the VM for installation:
mkdir -p $HOME/vm
qemu-img create -f qcow2 $HOME/vm/9front.qcow2.img 30G
qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu host -enable-kvm -m 1024 \
-net nic,model=virtio,macaddr=52:54:00:00:EE:03 -net user \
-device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi \
-drive if=none,id=vd0,file=$HOME/vm/9front.qcow2.img \
-device scsi-hd,drive=vd0 \
-drive if=none,id=vd1,file=9front.386.iso \
-device scsi-cd,drive=vd1,bootindex=0
Follow the install portion of this tutorial by henesy:
After the install process is complete and you poweroff the VM in the tutorial, you can use this script to start the VM normally:
#!/bin/sh
qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu host -enable-kvm -m 1024 \
-net nic,model=virtio,macaddr=52:54:00:00:EE:03 -net user\
,hostfwd=tcp::5640-:564\
,hostfwd=tcp::17019-:17019\
,hostfwd=tcp::5670-:567\
,hostfwd=tcp::17020-:17020 \
-device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi \
-drive if=none,id=vd0,file=$HOME/vm/9front.qcow2.img \
-device scsi-hd,drive=vd0
It forwards 567 and 564 on the VM to non-privileged ports so that running as root isn’t required.
When henesy uses drawterm in the tutorial,
get drawterm and use
drawterm -h 'tcp!127.0.0.1!17019' -u glenda -a 'tcp!127.0.0.1!5640' to connect.