From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <431EE73C.7000205@lanl.gov> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 07:12:28 -0600 From: Ronald G Minnich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Xen, Plan9, VNC References: <3AF26F5605627543BEC429636A5222900B723C@rohrpostix.xplain.local> In-Reply-To: <3AF26F5605627543BEC429636A5222900B723C@rohrpostix.xplain.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 855f699c-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Retzki, Sascha [Xplain] wrote: > 2.) Write some API for VirtualGraphicsCards (in Xen), so each domU sees > a virtual card, starts up its graphical system, and the dom0 can > "connect" to these systems (using some own approach or VNC, I did not go > into details to know that yet). you need to look at xen a bit more. On IA64 platforms, xen can boot unmodified kernel. There is vga bios and virtual graphics card happening in xen. The issue is, how do we get Plan 9 to use it? Answer is, I don't know, as this is in xen 3.0 and I am not looking at xen 3.0 until they get done changing it. I already started one port to Xen 3.0 and had to drop it, as Xen is rotating too fast for me ... I am hoping that once Xen stops changing and 3.0 is released, we can take a look at the graphics issue. That said, I do like having drawterm for plan 9 and xen, since I can get a rio desktop that spans two full 17" displays; nice. ron