From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) In-Reply-To: References: <36111140-8D4D-41B7-BCA2-17659EA08E26@telus.net> <4534D1B4-39BD-4DFB-A6FF-D9DACC078914@telus.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <8618a74b626b43468fe8f1ab605a6634@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 on the Cell... Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 06:36:12 +0900 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5e5da188-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Paul Lalonde wrote: > >> And it gets even more interesting: Kutaragi-san seems to think we'll >> be able >> to run (and write) new OSes to run on the PS3: >> http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/06/09/news_6127219.html >> >> Plan9 on a cheap and very effective piece of consumer electronics >> looks very >> possible this morning :-) > > I heard a bit more today. Also, read the article carefully. Other OSes > are > in the context of the virtual machine. PS/3 OSes run in a VM > environment. > > In other words, you can port an os but it will probably be running on > the > Sony hypervisor. > > So, get ready -- we'll probably need more Plan 9 interfaces to virtual > machine environments. in http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/06/09/news_6127219.html > In order to run the OSes, we need an HDD. So in order to declare that > the PS3 is a computer, I think we'll have [the PS3's HDD] preinstalled > with Linux as a bonus. Doesn't this mean PS3 will have virtual PC environment as a bonus? Kenji Arisawa