From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4857974E.4040906@proweb.co.uk> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:51:58 +0100 From: matt User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.14pre (X11/20080304) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <20080613190551.3C0265B46@mail.bitblocks.com> In-Reply-To: <20080613190551.3C0265B46@mail.bitblocks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] I/O load crashes Qemu Topicbox-Message-UUID: c141a224-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I am going to defend QEMU I've run a Plan 9 auth/cpu server on there for 8 months or so with no problems beyond those of my own construction. I am emulating x86-32 on a pre-VT Opteron AMD-64 (though I only found out about the difference *after* I bought it) and have kqemu.ko loaded, I run Debian. My Qemu is 0.9.1 though I used 0.9.0 for a while - I upgraded to take advantage of PXE booting in 0.9.1 and compiled it from the tar.gz I've not done much heavy I/O though I have made numerous pdf's with it with CGI on httpd. I've also produced my own installer isos with it which included plan9.iso & plan9.iso.bz2 in the iso. I've used it for fancy networking tricks with vde_switch and tap0. I use qcow images and I think they are sparse files. I have borked the file system with it, though it was my own fault. matt