have you considered running plan 9 from within virtualbox?<div><br></div><div>plan 9 seems to be fairly responsive running within the latest version of virtualbox on debian squeeze here.</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Anton <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:fluffylime@gmail.com">fluffylime@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello all,<div><br></div><div>Recently I&#39;ve discovered Plan 9 and I&#39;m fascinated by it&#39;s numerous beauties, and I want to try it for more or less regular use, probably port something.</div><div><br></div><div>
However, as it won&#39;t work on my laptop natively, i&#39;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.</div>
<div>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.</div>

<div>I&#39;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.</div>

<div>My system:</div><div>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)</div><div>9vx-hg (checked out 2011.11.17) - cmd line (9vx -r 9front -u glenda)</div>

<div>9front iso image - 9front-1131.664b953bfdde (I&#39;ve copied it&#39;s contents and `chmod -R u+w`ed it)</div><div>xf86-video-intel 2.16.0 - VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)</div>

<div>xorg-server 1.11.2</div><div>xorg-apps 7.6</div><div><br></div><div>Also, I&#39;ve seen the following message for a few times: &quot;9vx panic: sigsegv on cpu7&quot;, but I don&#39;t know if it related to freeze (it can show up in the middle of my boot-work-freeze session).</div>

<div><br></div><div>Previously, I&#39;ve used stock Plan 9 from Bell Labs with 9vx - it has the same problem.</div><div><br></div><div>P.S.: Sorry for my English.</div><div><br></div><div>Anton.</div>
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