From: John Floren <john@jfloren.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:14:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL4LZygNeFsRpZC9o4w6o=OLx4cGRQpu=cuZR8ynESpEN2YCRw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFUtaNFWMxu-s41qL+NfaP9wgNwFvg9w5kVhaQ8ee6W7Ca=iFQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Joel C. Salomon <joelcsalomon@gmail.com> wrote:
> After a long hiatus, I'd like to get back to experimenting with Plan
> 9. I have an Ubuntu Linux laptop with AMD's virtualization extensions
> supported by the CPU, so I figure my best bet is one of the umpteen
> virtualization tools. Which is best supported by Plan 9 — virtualbox,
> qemu, or something else?
>
> Also, what distributions are best for amd64? Bell Labs'? 9front? 9atom?
>
> Thanks,
> —Joel
>
>
I found that Virtualbox worked very well when I was fiddling with my
Macbook on the way back from IWP9. I haven't tried it on the thinkpad
yet.
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-22 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-22 15:39 Joel C. Salomon
2011-11-22 15:46 ` ron minnich
2011-11-22 15:56 ` Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
[not found] ` <CAL_gH73FUfzOdFg1HHMomr8_kubMwYvraXnkYUqQQ4hbzD33iw@mail.gmail.c>
2011-11-22 16:00 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-22 22:57 ` Joel C. Salomon
2011-11-22 23:04 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-22 23:21 ` ron minnich
2011-11-23 7:49 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-11-22 23:06 ` John Floren
2011-11-22 19:41 ` Jack Norton
2011-11-22 22:50 ` Joel C. Salomon
2011-11-22 23:00 ` Giacomo Tesio
2011-11-22 22:14 ` John Floren [this message]
2011-11-22 22:53 ` [9fans] Let's get VM configs onto the Wiki Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-11-22 22:58 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-22 23:12 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-11-22 23:22 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-11-22 23:22 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-11-22 23:37 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-11-22 23:33 ` andrew zerger
2011-11-24 21:16 ` Bakul Shah
2011-11-24 21:25 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-11-24 22:05 ` ron minnich
2011-11-24 22:28 ` Bakul Shah
2011-11-27 0:14 ` [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions Ruben Schuller
2011-11-27 6:29 ` Jens Staal
2011-11-27 7:08 ` John Floren
2011-11-27 9:18 ` Lucio De Re
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