From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:53:27 PST." References: Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:16:29 -0800 From: Bakul Shah Message-Id: <20111124211629.44A09B852@mail.bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Let's get VM configs onto the Wiki. Topicbox-Message-UUID: 45290412-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:53:27 PST Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > I found that Virtualbox worked very well when I was fiddling with my > > Macbook on the way back from IWP9. I haven't tried it on the thinkpad > > yet. > > What would be *really* helpful is if people who have actual real live > running this minute Plan 9 under some VM system would post their > *specific* VM and Plan9 configuration files to the Wiki. > > Several people claim to be running Plan 9 under assorted VMs, but it's > very difficult for others to reproduce that success, and every time I ask > someone for specific configs the response is "well that was months ago and > I don't use it any more" or suchlike. > > Not that I don't believe them, but basically I don't believe them ;-) I have added my notes about vbox 4 on OS X to http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/virtual_machines/index.html Feel free to update. To do: add freebsd notes. But I am not a fan of Wikis. Usually a wiki ends up being an unstructured collection of useful facts that can go stale as it takes a lot of effort to keep it organized.