Re: [9fans] Parallels Mac OS X Configuration document (networking is

["David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

On 6/14/06, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
> > (may work with their Linux/Windows versions too)
>
> I've just been re-working the Plan 9 xen port to make it compatible with
> Xen 3.0.  Does parallels on linux make this obsolete?
>
> -- Richard
>

Well Xen 3.0 supposedly supports the same hardware extensions Intel
has for virtualizing OSes.  In theory if you had an Intel Core Duo or
Core Solo (or Merom or Conroe which are of the Core 2 Duo family) you
could use either Xen or Parallels to run OSes "unmodified".  At least
that's the marketing.

Xen will likely be more popular than Parallels on Linux due to it's
free beer nature, and is likely worth a shot.

Another interesting path might be to run Plan 9 like L4 Linux using L4
as the "hypervisor" of sorts.  Linux seems to do better on L4 than on
Xen performance wise by some numbers I've seen.

I think Xen is more approachable than L4 though, in general, and the
port's already been done before.