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From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.demon.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Re: General question about hosted interfaces
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:39:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9ih5vn$33a$1@inputplus.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B4B13AF.6336FDA6@null.net>

Hi,

> What is it, apart from someone having to do the work, that would
> prevent the above-device-level portion of Plan 9, perhaps Inferno's
> emu, running on top of a UNIX system (or even Windows, gasp), with
> the hosted-Plan-9 first importing the UNIX /-rooted file system
> globally then overlay- mounting the hosted-Plan-9 specific parts of
> the name space?  I.e. true rio, acme, etc. for people who are not in
> a position to control the choice of operating system.

 From your later posts I understand you'd like to run Plan 9 on the same
machine and at the same time as another OS.  Has anyone tried to run
Plan 9 on one of the virtual machine products?  Plex86 runs quite a few
OS now.

    http://www.plex86.org/info.phtml
    http://www.vmware.com/products/


Ralph.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-07-11  9:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-10 15:17 [9fans] " Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-07-10 18:09 ` Lucio De Re
2001-07-11  8:34   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-07-11  9:39 ` Ralph Corderoy [this message]

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