From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:58:17 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <01e06d575b4b70556d2aa694c30a56b1@chula.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Let's get VM configs onto the Wiki. Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4432c048-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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