From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 15:08:16 -0700 From: Kurt H Maier To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20160902220816.GA70550@wopr> References: <3cc25353d73631c0fcf0ab1e30a417f5@felloff.net> <57C9E70E.6040308@gmail.com> <20160902210942.A8668124AEB2@mail.bitblocks.com> <20160902220026.4D53F124AEB2@mail.bitblocks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160902220026.4D53F124AEB2@mail.bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9c92878a-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 03:00:26PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: > > Don't keep updating it. Problem solved! Our problem was that each individual user who reported a problem on vbox was running an apparently unique version -- I don't think we ever had two trouble reports that matched each other, or two trouble reports about the same version of vbox... > However, if anyone makes plan9 work under bhyve or khyve I'm > interested. I'm also interested in this, and every once in a while I test it out. Nothing worth reporting yet, but once I get something running I'll report it here. > Separately, an interesting project would be to implement plan9 > sandboxes (ala linux "containers" or freebsd "jails)" so that > one can easily set up a cluster of plan9 boxes. mycroft's ANTS tools can be used to do this very effectively. He's written copious documentation, including step-by-step walkthroughs, that cover doing just this. I've got his code preserved, but I need to gather up the various texts and stash them in a repo alongside the code. khm