From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:50:59 +0100 From: Eris Discordia To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: <69CBEA1CA346E38D7A5C7507@192.168.1.2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: db3b639e-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Now I need to decide whether to install qemu or kvm, and whether to > install it in Ubuntu or in Debian, and then reorganize my partitions > accordingly. QEMU would be the way to go. It seems most people here who run Plan 9 in a VM do it on QEMU on Linux; you'll have a better chance of getting answers if something goes wrong. I believe there won't be any need for changing your partition table as long as you don't want QEMU read/write from/to a "raw" partition. --On Wednesday, April 15, 2009 9:05 PM +0800 Jim Habegger wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Eris Discordia > wrote: >> Plan 9 is not intended for home or home office. > > Yes, I understood that from the responses to my questions. As soon as > I read them, I gave up the idea of trying to switch to Plan 9. Now > it's more about enriching my knowledge and experience. It might be > good experience for me to see how far I can stretch Plan 9 for home > computing. > >> learning about >> computers is for me only a pleasant aside to actual use of computers > > It's more the other way around with me. Using them is only a pleasant > aside to learning about them! > > Now I need to decide whether to install qemu or kvm, and whether to > install it in Ubuntu or in Debian, and then reorganize my partitions > accordingly. >