From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5a03888bc4077fcac1298b2e80fc34aa@quanstro.net> To: 9fans@9fans.net From: erik quanstrom Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 13:49:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] why not Lvx for Plan 9? Topicbox-Message-UUID: dee07fa8-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >> in this model, all plan 9 does is add an extra layer of goo >> on top of linux. it's not like you can avoid admining >> linux by hiding on a vm running on linux. >> > > That's not entirely true depending on the virtualization layer used. > I'm not experienced yet with vx32, but for example, lguest/kvm/xen can > be setup to pass-through device access to network, disk, audio, > whatever. The logical partition running Plan 9 can be essentially > pinned to a processor (or processors) and on that processor it rules > the roost. Linux just deals with device access. you didn't explain the part where you avoid admining the linux host. - erik