I think it's officially a port of Plan 9's kernel to the vx32 stuff, so it's
not precisely the same as running a Plan 9 box natively, or in another
emulator, but it is indeed quite a feat, and "close enough" that most people
won't notice.
Personally, I'd love to be able to completely replace drawterm with 9vx, but
for some reason I still have a little trouble with that setup (in fact I've
not finished setting up my CPUFSAUTH server yet, so really I'm the reason
for that).

Another interesting project would be an Inferno based drawterm :-)... but
I'd be lying if I said I had any time for that kind of fun.

Dave

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Sam Watkins <sam@nipl.net> wrote:

> I just installed 9vx under Linux on my eee pc, it's a delight to be able to
> run
> 2 or 3 instances of plan 9 with no bother under Linux!  I can't really run
> Plan
> 9 as my main OS at the moment, but it seems there's not a big performance
> hit
> to run it in 9vx.
>
> I want to say "thanks!" to Russ for packaging this up (and to the plan 9
> devs
> of course), and I want to suggest that there should be a link to 9vx on the
> main plan 9 website.  I suppose most of the people who are interested in
> Plan 9
> would be Unix / Linux users like me, it's a very good way to try or use it
> for
> those people.
>
> Sam
>
>