From: "Devon H. O'Dell " <dodell@offmyserver.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Best Emulator to Run Plan9 in?
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 08:57:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050405065720.GG43436@smp500.sitetronics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a05040422416f340e89@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 01:41:45AM -0400, Russ Cox wrote:
> > I have just subscribed to this list. I am planning ahead to experiment
> > with Plan9, but I want to set it up under an emulator (the host system
> > is Linux with 2.2.16 kernel). I saw some messages from last year
> > mentioning plan9 running in QEMU. Another emulator candidate would be
> > Bochs. Could anyone please share their recent experience regarding
> > running Plan9 in an emulator, are there any serious issues, etc.
>
> I have been running Plan 9 in QEMU for the past
> few days and it has worked well. I put changes on
> sources a few days ago that correct some problems
> with the ethernet and disk simulation. I think I also
> fixed the dreaded "hangs under VMware unless there
> is a CD in the drive" bug too.
>
> It just boots: qemu -cdrom plan9.iso -boot d
> You can only select graphics depths of 8bpp
> (e.g., 1024x768x8).
>
> Russ
I just pulled from sources and tried to boot in 4.5.2
workstation with an empty CD `drive', but it still doesn't
appear to work. Qemu's been working fine for me though :)
--Devon
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-05 6:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-05 4:50 Dimitry Golubovsky
2005-04-05 5:41 ` Russ Cox
2005-04-05 6:57 ` Devon H. O'Dell [this message]
2005-04-05 12:59 ` Russ Cox
2005-04-05 13:05 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-04-05 13:14 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-04-05 13:19 ` Russ Cox
2005-04-05 13:28 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-04-05 22:27 ` Derek Fawcus
2005-04-05 23:05 ` Russ Cox
2005-04-05 6:37 ` Catalin(ux aka Dino) BOIE
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