From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Tue,  5 Apr 2005 08:57:20 +0200
From: "Devon H. O'Dell " <dodell@offmyserver.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Best Emulator to Run Plan9 in?
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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.
>=20
> I have been running Plan 9 in QEMU for the past=20
> few days and it has worked well.  I put changes on=20
> 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.
>=20
> It just boots: qemu -cdrom plan9.iso -boot d
> You can only select graphics depths of 8bpp
> (e.g., 1024x768x8).
>=20
> 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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