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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:40:30 +0200
From: Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 && qemu/Kqemu/qvm86
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Good day.

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:07:44 +0200
Marco Mililotti <marco@yawbs.org> wrote:

> Anyone that has installed P9 under Qemu using kqemu can give me infos 
> about which kernel version (on the host), wich version of qemu/kqemu 
> it's using?

Plan 9 runs on it since 0.7.2.

> If I don't use kqemu, the process goes on, I can start the "copydist" 
> task (but, hey, it's terribly *SLOW*).

A Qemu HDD image is on [0], with a preinstalled Plan 9, so the slow copy
process does not need to be done.

> I've not found infos on 9fans about this kind of probles; any 
> suggestions on what should I try?

Still there is Xen, as the Xenoppix thread showed some days before. [1]

> Thanks,
> PS:
> booting the cdrom seems to be working fine without crashes.
> well, is someone using kqemu at all here? For me plain qemu is working 
> _very_ slowly (very! very! slowly on 1GHZ pc).
> -- Marco

The copying is so slow. Running Qemu + Plan 9 on a 2.29Ghz Pentium IV is
fast enough for working with it.

Sincerely,

Christoph

[0] http://www.9grid.de/plan9/Plan9-hdimage.gz (One week old.)
[1] http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/xen/index-en.html