[9fans] Plan 9 image for Google Compute Engine?

[9fans] Plan 9 image for Google Compute Engine?

[Skip Tavakkolian]

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is anyone working on this or has done a deep dive? it looks doable.

https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/images#providedkernel

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Re: [9fans] Plan 9 image for Google Compute Engine?

[Aram Hăvărneanu]

Plan 9 doesn't have virtio ethernet driver (except mischief's, which I
don't think is ready for public consumption yet).

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Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 image for Google Compute Engine?

[Venkatesh Srinivas]

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Aram Hăvărneanu <aram.h@mgk.ro> wrote:
> Plan 9 doesn't have virtio ethernet driver (except mischief's, which I
> don't think is ready for public consumption yet).

You will also need a virtio-scsi driver; GCE does not offer
virtio-blk. But it should work just fine when both drivers are
available.

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Re: [9fans] Plan 9 image for Google Compute Engine?

[cinap_lenrek]

DONE, now beer.

http://code.google.com/p/plan9front/source/detail?r=2f51489d42116c85159dc1649ab82cec9a766542

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cinap

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 image for Google Compute Engine?

[Skip Tavakkolian]

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Cool! is there a virtio ethernet driver in the works for 9front?

anyone know what flavor is mischief's version?

-Skip


On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 5:16 PM, <cinap_lenrek@felloff.net> wrote:

> DONE, now beer.
>
>
> http://code.google.com/p/plan9front/source/detail?r=2f51489d42116c85159dc1649ab82cec9a766542
>
> --
> cinap
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>

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Re: [9fans] Plan 9 image for Google Compute Engine?

[Nick Owens]

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hello, mischief here.

it is 'in the works'. there's some bugs to be squashed.

i'm using the legacy virtio interface. it doesn't perform very great
right now, usually slower than igbe, but that may not matter if you
can't get igbe at all. it also seems to crash on old (meaning, 1.0)
qemu. i've been testing on 1.7.0 and 2.0.0.

i am writing the driver on 9front, but a while ago i ran it on lab's
kernel. it seemed to work OK then.

On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 01:18:44PM -0700, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
> Cool! is there a virtio ethernet driver in the works for 9front?
> 
> anyone know what flavor is mischief's version?
> 
> -Skip
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 5:16 PM, <cinap_lenrek@felloff.net> wrote:
> 
> > DONE, now beer.
> >
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/plan9front/source/detail?r=2f51489d42116c85159dc1649ab82cec9a766542
> >
> > -- cinap
> >
> >

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Re: [9fans] Plan 9 image for Google Compute Engine?

[Steve Simon]

> is anyone working on this or has done a deep dive? it looks doable.

No but it looks intriguing.

-Steve

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 image for Google Compute Engine?

[lucio]

> is anyone working on this or has done a deep dive? it looks doable.
>
> https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/images#providedkernel

Cool idea, but it seems to come with some baggage, specifically,
requiring python 2.6, sshd and, more importantly (but optionally, it
seems)gsutil, gcutil and some odd network settings.  It still looks
feasible, but not with an out-of-the-box Plan 9 instance.

L.