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Date: Tue,  1 Jul 2014 08:58:45 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Kabini or Raspberry Pi?
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> if anyone has any information on Plan 9 and Xen, that would be most welcome too.

http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/installing_in_Xen_3.0

This is a paravirtualised kernel which runs on xen; I've used it on an
AWS server with reasonable success.

With modern intel hardware, it's also possible to run normal native plan 9
on Xen.

> for my Plan9 CPU/Auth/File server.   Another candidate
> is raspberry pi.

The pi makes an excellent terminal but I wouldn't use one as a file server.
The only way to attach a local disk is via usb, and the usb interface is
not the strongest point of the Broadcom SoC.  It will be slow and probably
unreliable.