have you considered running plan 9 from within virtualbox?

plan 9 seems to be fairly responsive running within the latest version of
virtualbox on debian squeeze here.


On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Anton <fluffylime@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Recently I've discovered Plan 9 and I'm fascinated by it's numerous
> beauties, and I want to try it for more or less regular use, probably port
> something.
>
> However, as it won't work on my laptop natively, i'm forced to use 9vx
> (running in kvm is too slow). It has one magor drawback - it is freezing my
> entire system after some random time.
> Symptoms are - no reaction on input (mouse/keyboard), no changes in output
> (screen is showing me what was going on just before freeze). The only thing
> I can do is to press power button for 10 secs and wait until my laptop
> turned off.
> I've tried to find the reasons of this behaviour, but all system logs are
> silent - last kernel.log messages are prior to hang, the same with
> messages.log and Xorg.log, console output from 9vx are empty, too. What
> causes the hang is also seems unclear - it can froze on 9vx startup, or
> when I use terminal, or installing something, or just browsing web (not in
> 9vx) in chrome, while 9vx window is hidden.
> My system:
> Linux hippo 3.0-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Oct 19 12:14:48 UTC 2011 i686
> Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU T2600 @ 2.16GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux (Archlinux)
> 9vx-hg (checked out 2011.11.17) - cmd line (9vx -r 9front -u glenda)
> 9front iso image - 9front-1131.664b953bfdde (I've copied it's contents and
> `chmod -R u+w`ed it)
> xf86-video-intel 2.16.0 - VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation
> Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
> xorg-server 1.11.2
> xorg-apps 7.6
>
> Also, I've seen the following message for a few times: "9vx panic: sigsegv
> on cpu7", but I don't know if it related to freeze (it can show up in the
> middle of my boot-work-freeze session).
>
> Previously, I've used stock Plan 9 from Bell Labs with 9vx - it has the
> same problem.
>
> P.S.: Sorry for my English.
>
> Anton.
>