From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090804072516.D6CFB5B3B@mail.bitblocks.com> References: <95b41e5c5987b4c66130ed76b9e1b936@quanstro.net> <28c8e7f7e7d4c123ec7ff4a64e4e41d7@plan9.bell-labs.com> <3e1162e60908032012j7611674fkdee43c2bf51134ed@mail.gmail.com> <20090804072516.D6CFB5B3B@mail.bitblocks.com> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:47:25 -0700 Message-ID: <3e1162e60908040547u1187c904r791d38657e501205@mail.gmail.com> From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd47bded8183204705049e7 Subject: Re: [9fans] Parallels Vesa driver question Topicbox-Message-UUID: 37f6acf6-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000e0cd47bded8183204705049e7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Bakul Shah > wrote: > On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:12:08 PDT David Leimbach > wrote: > > Wow.... Where's parallels 4. I doubt I qualify for a free one. And > VMWare > > Fusion really sucks with Plan 9 at the moment :-( > > qemu works well enough for me on FreeBSD & Linux but not on a > Mac. VirtualBox doesn't run plan9 but it runs FreeBSD, Linux > and Windows fairly well so may be there is hope. There is an > open source version of VirtualBox that might be worth > tinkering with. > > I was considering giving qemu a try on the mac. I believe there's a mac centric front-end for it even. In fact, how much of virtualbox is using qemu? --000e0cd47bded8183204705049e7 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Bakul S= hah <ba= kul+plan9@bitblocks.com> wrote:
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:12:08 PDT David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> =A0wrote:
> Wow.... =A0Where's parallels 4. =A0I doubt I qualify for a free on= e. =A0And VMWare
> Fusion really sucks with Plan 9 at the moment :-(

qemu works well enough for me on FreeBSD & Linux but not on a
Mac. =A0VirtualBox doesn't run plan9 but it runs FreeBSD, Linux
and Windows fairly well so may be there is hope. =A0There is an
open source version of VirtualBox that might be worth
tinkering with.

I was considering giving qemu a try on the mac. I believ= e there's a mac centric front-end for it even.

In fa= ct, how much of virtualbox is using qemu?
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