From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:23:18 +0100 From: Eris Discordia To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <0A18D38275C0CC154E793433@[192.168.1.2]> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] Adventures of a home user Topicbox-Message-UUID: efb161b6-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 To whom it may concern: had the right patches for Plan 9 to work on Virtual PC been incorporated and a new ISO released half the complaints from Windows users who want to give Plan 9 a try would disappear. Some potential enterprise users might also get interested in running many Plan 9 instances on Microsoft Virtual Server platform after seeing it run on Virtual PC (Due to its light weight Plan 9 may be a good choice for some virtual hosting services). P.S. No need to remind me the originator of this thread is trying Plan 9 on a VM in Linux. He has a working Windows installation anyway and configuring Virtual PC for networking (or any task) is way easier than QEMU. Performance is comparable. Plus, VPC's graphics and guest-host integration work perfectly. --On Thursday, April 23, 2009 5:12 PM +0800 Jim Habegger wrote: > My Plan 9 training is temporarily suspended while I learn to use QEMU. > > That's funny because I suspended my Slackware training to learn to use > Plan 9. > > Now I might suspend my QEMU training to try out some other virtualizers. > Also, I got a FreeDOS image to use for my QEMU training, so I may wander > off into FreeDOS for a while.