From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4ECBFAD2.2080308@0x6a.com> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:41:06 -0600 From: Jack Norton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 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: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions Topicbox-Message-UUID: 43981534-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 11/22/2011 9:39 AM, Joel C. Salomon wrote: > After a long hiatus, I'd like to get back to experimenting with Plan > 9. I have an Ubuntu Linux laptop with AMD's virtualization extensions > supported by the CPU, so I figure my best bet is one of the umpteen > virtualization tools. Which is best supported by Plan 9 =E2=80=94 virt= ualbox, > qemu, or something else? > > Also, what distributions are best for amd64? Bell Labs'? 9front? 9atom= ? > > Thanks, > =E2=80=94Joel > I have had good luck with qemu-kvm. I've even got a VPS running with=20 all the management bells and wistles like libvirt and such. It has been=20 running solid since march (lab's plan9 with fossil only). I ran a qemu/kvm instance at home for a while too. That was under=20 archlinux though (and an AMD cpu with the necessary extensions). In the former case I had to really play with plan9.ini to get it to boot=20 all the way, but it required nothing out of the ordinary in the end.=20 Choose your virtualized NIC wisely I suppose. -Jack