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From: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting qemu problem
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On Mar 16, 2010, at 6:52 PM, ron minnich wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen =
<ericvh@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
>> You could configure venti to be less aggressive with its use of =
memory, but that would likely hurt performance.
>>=20
>> Running venti inside qemu is silly.  If you really want venti for =
your vm, run venti on the host and target your in-vm fossil at it.
>=20
>=20
> I tend to disagree. If I'm running qemu it is because I want to
> simulate a whole-machine environment. If I don't need that simulation,
> I'll go back to 9vx.
>=20
> but YMMV.
>=20

Yeah, but Plan 9's a cluster environment, nothing wrong with the venti =
server being elsewhere (in fact, thats kind of expected) -- unless of =
course you are debugging the venti server.

      -eric