Just to clarify... Parallels 5 requires a Mac. There are howerver, older
versions for M$ and Linux as well as their Server Virtualization products.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallels,_Inc.

-joe

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:14 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>wrote:

> > Just to confirm what Geoff said.
> >
> > Parallels 5 works like a charm with Plan 9.
> > Also, it seems to have full ACPI support, not that this is
> > important for Plan 9 yet.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:53 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
> wrote:
> > >> I've heard nothing but bad things about VirtualBox. Mostly from Plan 9
> > >> people(where the results have been uniformly bad), but also from folks
> > >> trying to useother OSes. It seems the worst of the breed across the
> board.
> > >
> > > has anyone tried 9atom on virtualbox?  i think there's a good chance
> > > virtualbox has some of the same issues i had with the ich7r.
>
> parallels requires a mac.
>
> - erik
>
>