From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4ECA89D4.9080803@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:26:44 +0100 From: Jens Staal User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111108 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <4ECA333A.2010600@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] 9vx instability Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4277b2c2-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 11/21/11 18:09, Anton wrote: > > If you're on linux, you should consider kvm + kvmtool + plan 9 > AFAIK, kvmtool wasn't integrated into 3.1. Is it stable/mature enough > to run plan 9? > > > i have to say my experience is quite different > Hm, that's odd. 9vx runs ok in ubuntu in tinycore, but not in arch. > Maybe the thing is in Arch's kernel config or patches (although, stock > kernel is quite vanilla...)? > Are there Arch users to confirm? I have not had any problems, but I run the 9vx-hg package (could be a vx32 version difference?). The freezing behaviour seems very strange - something with the WM? I run dwm now and KDE before and did not experience any freezes due to vx32 in either. The only crashes I have experienced have been some experimental compiles (never succeeded under 9vx) using the Plan9 port of GCC 3.0, but those crashes were quite graceful and did not bother the rest of my system.