From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 08:49:45 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <4d4563293f8ff94f170de04b71c37e8d@brasstown.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <4c45201b-d092-4fbd-92cd-25db10e5ef72@googlegroups.com> References: <4c45201b-d092-4fbd-92cd-25db10e5ef72@googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] What features are only availalbe on plan9 OS but not on Topicbox-Message-UUID: d3937e4e-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon Nov 5 08:45:06 EST 2012, ryu.insang@gmail.com wrote: > Hi. Sorry for my English :-/ > > I'm newly interested in plan9 stuffs. > I want to know what would be the differences between plan9 on > virtual machine and plan9port. Can someone kindly explain it? the differences are quite fundamental. p9p tries to add some plan9 bits like acme to other systems. when there is a conflict or there's an abstraction the host can't handle, it is not supported. so namespaces don't work. if you're looking for a slightly nicer $os or $os with acme, this works fine. if you want a plan 9 experience, you will be disappointed. it's going to be tautology, but plan 9 in a vm box is exactly the same code running the same way as plan 9 on real hardware, except the hardware is virtual. - erik