I have been using Russ Cox's 9vx on OS/X Mavericks with considerable success.  The only issue being that I need to connect a Logitech 3 button mouse via a Unifying RF dongle (BlueTooth mice don't work for me).

Although 9vx is somewhat minimal, I download sources as I require them from 9p.io website.

Richard Millers Plan9 port works fine for me on an older RPi - B (?)  using the same mouse that I use with MBP.

Personally I find the 9vx environment more to my liking as I can edit code with vim, use Finder, etc using OS/X concurrently with Plan9 -- yes, I know that is heretical to die-hard Plan9 folks, but I'm a *nix guy foremost and a Plan9 newbie.

Pardon the confusion over which model RPi I am using. I have several from different releases and I get confused as to which one I am using at any given time. Swapping SDHC cards, etc 



On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 at 12:33, Mark Everett <everettm@gmail.com> wrote:
Mostly a lurker so far, but wanted to try the actual system rather than plan9port.  But sometimes getting actual hardware up an running is a steep first step :-)

Does anyone know of a virtual machine running on current Mac OS that hosts plan9?  Preferably one that isn’t too difficult to set up….

Also, I’m a little unclear on what the advantages/disadvantages of the various forks of plan9 are best on, their audience, etc. And it seems somewhat difficult to determine where to find the code for the different forks. Most likely I’m just not paying attention….

I do have a pi 4 but probably not the one with the wall wart fix. Is Mr. Miller’s code all in one place? Where is it publicly available?

Is there some repository for add-on file systems ala 9P2000 in one place. If not the actual code, perhaps pointers to the actual repositories.

Sorry if it appears that I’m not digging in to find this information myself, but I can’t seem to find the end of the string to pull…

Thanks in advance.

Lurker Mark



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