Re: [9fans] Parallels Vesa driver question

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Bakul Shah
<bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com<bakul%2Bplan9@bitblocks.com>
> wrote:

> On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:47:25 PDT David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
>  wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Bakul Shah
> > <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com <bakul%2Bplan9@bitblocks.com><
> bakul%2Bplan9@bitblocks.com <bakul%252Bplan9@bitblocks.com>>
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:12:08 PDT David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
> > >  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.
>
> It's called Q. Don't bother.
>
> > In fact, how much of virtualbox is using qemu?
>
> I think vbox devices and recompiler are based on qemu but I
> don't really know.  IIRC early qemu did seem to have similar
> issues with plan9.
>
> Since other OSes run pretty well, my guess is something plan9
> depends on heavily has to be emulated (due to memory layout
> assumptions or something).
>

I've also tried Minix and QNX and both have problems on Virtual Box.  Which
other OSes did you try?  Linux and windows work but they're like necessary
to even claim you can do anything virtualization wise.

Dave

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