So many configs- is true, since the configuration of the host itself is critical to the virtual platform, and your distroVersion/openbox vs. distro2Version/openbox. <div><br></div><div>Especially the successful archlinux/gentoo/lfs qemu-kvm guys will be like----  well first I (already) had a kernel compiled for my hardware (lspci, kernel.config), then I enabled KVM support in the kernel, and tun/tap support, then it just worked, because of course, all of that is in the wikis/docs for those necessary steps.<div>
<br></div><div>If anyone has trouble I would recommend the docs say, compile your own virtual host and glean issue/resolution wiki from what transpires there, otherwise it will be a distro specific problem on the hardware support side of distro-&gt;vm-&gt;(no-longer hardware phase)guest, and that distro/VM team would be more interested to know how what is broken than anyone looking at plan9 code.<div>

<br></div><div>Or- not being some kind of gentoo snob, if I had/&#39;there were&#39; some docs on how to get host-side information on how many supported/unsupported syscalls, etc, plan9 made to qemu, I think that would be useful for improving the performance of plan9 on virtual hardware, but I&#39;m not sure. Just letting my mind wander at the end of the day. Those docs on debugging qemu guests probably exist somewhere I won&#39;t see right away.</div>
<div><br></div><div>regards,</div><div>andrew</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>ps,</div><div>Here&#39;s a really bad startup script for qemu-kvm, haha </div><div>(not really, its just really bad .. okay 1 line)</div>
<div><br></div><div>kvm -net nic,macaddr=$DISTMAC \</div><div>    -net tap,ifname=$DISTTAP,script=no,downscript=no \</div><div>    $DVMOPT \</div><div>    -hda $DISIMG -m $MVMRAM -daemonize</div><div><br></div><div><br><div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:58 PM, erik quanstrom <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:quanstro@quanstro.net" target="_blank">quanstro@quanstro.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>&gt; What would be *really* helpful is if people who have actual real live<br>
&gt; running this minute Plan 9 under some VM system would post their<br>
&gt; *specific* VM and Plan9 configuration files to the Wiki.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Several people claim to be running Plan 9 under assorted VMs, but it&#39;s<br>
&gt; very difficult for others to reproduce that success, and every time I ask<br>
&gt; someone for specific configs the response is &quot;well that was months ago and<br>
&gt; I don&#39;t use it any more&quot; or suchlike.<br>
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&gt; Not that I don&#39;t believe them, but basically I don&#39;t believe them ;-)<br>
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</div>i think the problem is that there are so many configurations.<br>
there are at least<br>
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        vm versions * vm config * real hardware<br>
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many of them.  hardware passthrough has got to be one of the<br>
least appealing ideas that&#39;s come out of virtualization.  you get<br>
all the complications of a virtual environment, coupled with the<br>
convenience and sheer joy of dealing with hardware.<br>
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