From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
From: "=?utf-8?q?Fran=C3=A7ois?= Revol" <revol@free.fr>
Date: Fri,  8 Jan 2010 21:04:48 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] parallels
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> > Do you think you'd recommend Parallels over VirtualBox=3F  I've not
> > tried
> > plan
> > 9 on VirtualBox as I usually opt to run it on real hardware where I
> > can,
> >  and
> > 9vx or drawterm to connect.
>
> Forget about VirtualBox. It's nowhere near ready for prime time on
> MacOS or Solaris.  The only thing I've ever succeeded in getting it
> to run is XP/SP2 (on either platform). (The same applies to xVM on
> Solaris.)

Actually ZETA and Haiku run pretty well on it (on OSX), I just had to
downgrade the last version as it had some regressions on DHCP and
mouse.

I still use my ZETA install in VirtualBox to read my mail :p

Fran=C3=A7ois.