Re: [9fans] Re: How do I run plan9 in virtualbox?

[hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>]

I suppose hyper-v works on windows.

On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 9:09 AM Peter Hull <peterhull90@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 at 03:18, Don Bailey <don.bailey@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > forgot to respond to this but fwiw, running plan9 on virtualbox seems to work peachy. Hiro what was the bug(s) you were running into before? I've never ran into an issue with it, but I've only used vbox on Linux; maybe it's a host/CPU issue?
> 
> My experience is that I ran 9front mostly successfully for a long
> time, but sometimes versions of either 9front or VB would conflict.
> Recently it stopped working for me:
> https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=109347
> I think the issue is that, due to the way it works (it's
> virtualisation, not an emulator), some aspects of the host CPU 'leak
> through' and that isn't always handled correctly. I had another issue
> with valgrind and Fedora linux which was down to the same thing.
> Someone once told me that QEMU always works, but last time I tried,
> QEMU is not very nice to use on Windows.
> Pete

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