From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Native vs Emulated In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:52:37 MST." References: <200503041610.aa03183@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 11:25:37 +0000 From: John Stalker Message-ID: <200503051125.aa85115@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1fbecb78-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, John Stalker wrote: > > > In answer to an earlier question, I am running native on a Thinkpad > > T23. I am considering switching to running under Xen on the same > > machine, but that would involve installing Linux. > > yeah, if p9 is native on your machine now, not much point in Xen unless > you need Linux for something ... > > ron I've no particular need for Linux, but I would like to be able to switch between a BSD and p9 without a reboot and to transfer files without going through a DOS partition. I also had an idea of playing a bit with a p9 ``network'' on one machine. John -- John Stalker University of Dublin, Trinity College School of Mathematics