From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4BC9D59F.1030709@magma.com.ni> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:37:03 +0200 From: Georg Lehner User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100411) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install Topicbox-Message-UUID: 05c3f3dc-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Joel C. Salomon wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Federico G. Benavento > wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Joel C. Salomon wrote: >> >>> My computer died, so I'm in the market for a new one. I figure I'd >>> like to get back into hacking on Plan 9 so I plan to install it >>> beneath a VM in whatever machine I buy. I'm even considering Windows >>> 7 Pro with Virtual PC, but I think I'd prefer Xen or one of the >>> Linux-based things (VirtualBox, etc.). >>> >>> Ease of installation is important, as is the ability to run a somewhat >>> normal (Windows or Linux) host OS. Are there any recommendations? >>> >>> >> vmware, the rest just suck, qemu and virtual box being >> the slowest >> > > How about Xen? Has anyone here had luck wit it? > > —Joel C. Salomon > > Years ago i had run Plan9 inside Xen and wrote even some tutorial how to set it up. After finding out, that filesystem performance was very bad i stopped perusing that project, so i can't tell how it'd go with current Xen. Regards, Jorge-León