ref: b68a81797248e22e1c5bc7aad7a7a141310b460a
parent: 967a9f7ad9a95ce586a661fb21c6dcff104acd79
author: qwx <devnull@localhost>
date: Sat Mar 10 06:01:51 EST 2018
fqa8.ms: 8.7.5.1 minor corrections and typos
--- a/fqa8.ms
+++ b/fqa8.ms
@@ -1834,7 +1834,7 @@
Basic examples:
-• Boot amd64 kernel with 1 GB of RAM, a 9front iso as a disk, a network
+• Boot 386 kernel with 1 GB of RAM, a 9front iso as a disk, a network
interface through ether0 and a 640x480 framebuffer:
.P1
@@ -1842,7 +1842,7 @@
.P2
• Instead of a framebuffer, use
-.ihtml a <a href="http://man.9front/org/1/con">
+.ihtml a <a href="http://man.9front.org/1/con">
.CW con(1)
.ihtml a
to connect to the console:
@@ -1862,10 +1862,11 @@
.ihtml h3
It may be desirable to attach a disk to the virtual PC.
-In this case, the \f(CW-d\fR flag may be used to point to a file to be used as a
-raw disk image.
-The file may be virtually anything so long as *vmx* can overwrite it.
-The flag may be specified multiple times.
+One may then specify a number of files to be used as raw disk images
+with the \f(CW-d\fR flag.
+The files may be virtually anything so long as
+.CW vmx(1)
+can overwrite them.
The common options here include plain files,
.ihtml a <a href="http://man.9front.org/3/sd">
@@ -1897,12 +1898,7 @@
quirks in the virtio devices' implementation.
Beware that the host crashing may also trash your disks -- for instance,
giving the guest too much memory, which is always allocated in full on start
-up in a physical segment (see
-.ihtml a <a href="http://man.9front.org/2/segattach">
-.CW segattach(2)),
-.ihtml a
-will trigger an OOM on the
-host.
+up, will trigger an OOM on the host.
.html - <a name="8.7.5.1.2" />
.ihtml h3 <h3>
@@ -1916,9 +1912,9 @@
Wireless ethernet interfaces may also be used without any additional work.
The interface can also be a dial string or a plain file.
The emulated card's MAC address is random by default, and can be changed
-using an optional \f(CW!ea:\fR prefix.
+using an optional \f(CWea:\fR prefix.
-For example, to add bridge an ethernet interface and use \f(CWDE:AD:BE:EF:CA:FE\fR for the virtio device's MAC:
+For example, to bridge an ethernet interface and use \f(CWDE:AD:BE:EF:CA:FE\fR for the virtio device's MAC:
.P1
vmx -d 9.img -n ea:deadbeefcafe!ether0 -v 640x480 /386/9pc
@@ -1945,15 +1941,14 @@
To use the OpenBSD installer, first find a \f(CWbsd.rd\fR kernel.
To then use an existing OpenBSD install, use a \f(CWbsd\fR kernel instead.
A networked install may be used if an ethernet interface is specified on
-the command line: see OpenBSD's
+the command line: it will use OpenBSD's
.ihtml a <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vio">
.CW vio(4)
.ihtml a
-interfaces.
+driver.
Otherwise, an \f(CWinstall??.fs\fR file may be used as a disk.
-For example, to install OpenBSD 6.2 to a disk file using an install image,
-without graphics and using console for input and output:
+For example, to install OpenBSD 6.2 to a disk file using an install image and VESA graphics:
.P1
vmx -d obsd.img -d install62.fs -v vesa:640x480 bsd.rd