Some notes concerning the virtual machine:

- mnx_fresh and mnx_reinstall do not work because they require the
 machine to be connected to the VU network; they are not needed though,
 as you can simply overwrite the virtual disk with the original version

- mnx_diff has been tested and should work

- although Internet Explorer names the file "minix-bs.tar.tar", it's
 real name is "minix-bs.tar.gz" and you should probably rename it to
 that before you can extract it

- the virtual machine is not officially supported, so you should always
 test your programs on the real machines at the VU too

This virtual machine was created in the following way:

- used qemu-img to create a 1.5 GB virtual disk for VMWare; the VMWare
 configuration file was copied from another VM and modified manually
 for running Minix

- installed Minix 3.1.0 from the CD ISO on the website, using the
 minimal installation option and the Lance network card

- downloaded the files from galjas.cs.vu.nl (these are normally used by
 mnx_fresh)

- overwrite all files except for the configuration files (to keep the
 ethernet adapter working)

- recompiled using "make fresh install" (twice)