From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Let's get VM configs onto the Wiki.
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:58:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01e06d575b4b70556d2aa694c30a56b1@chula.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.1.10.1111221450070.3883@meriadoc.local>
> What would be *really* helpful is if people who have actual real live
> running this minute Plan 9 under some VM system would post their
> *specific* VM and Plan9 configuration files to the Wiki.
>
> Several people claim to be running Plan 9 under assorted VMs, but it's
> very difficult for others to reproduce that success, and every time I ask
> someone for specific configs the response is "well that was months ago and
> I don't use it any more" or suchlike.
>
> Not that I don't believe them, but basically I don't believe them ;-)
i think the problem is that there are so many configurations.
there are at least
vm versions * vm config * real hardware
many of them. hardware passthrough has got to be one of the
least appealing ideas that's come out of virtualization. you get
all the complications of a virtual environment, coupled with the
convenience and sheer joy of dealing with hardware.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-22 22:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-22 15:39 [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions Joel C. Salomon
2011-11-22 15:46 ` ron minnich
2011-11-22 15:56 ` Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
[not found] ` <CAL_gH73FUfzOdFg1HHMomr8_kubMwYvraXnkYUqQQ4hbzD33iw@mail.gmail.c>
2011-11-22 16:00 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-22 22:57 ` Joel C. Salomon
2011-11-22 23:04 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-22 23:21 ` ron minnich
2011-11-23 7:49 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-11-22 23:06 ` John Floren
2011-11-22 19:41 ` Jack Norton
2011-11-22 22:50 ` Joel C. Salomon
2011-11-22 23:00 ` Giacomo Tesio
2011-11-22 22:14 ` John Floren
2011-11-22 22:53 ` [9fans] Let's get VM configs onto the Wiki Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-11-22 22:58 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-11-22 23:12 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-11-22 23:22 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-11-22 23:22 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-11-22 23:37 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-11-22 23:33 ` andrew zerger
2011-11-24 21:16 ` Bakul Shah
2011-11-24 21:25 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-11-24 22:05 ` ron minnich
2011-11-24 22:28 ` Bakul Shah
2011-11-27 0:14 ` [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions Ruben Schuller
2011-11-27 6:29 ` Jens Staal
2011-11-27 7:08 ` John Floren
2011-11-27 9:18 ` Lucio De Re
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