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From: "Vincent van Gelderen" <v-i-n-z@zonnet.nl>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: RE: [9fans] Running Plan9 under Virtual PC
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 12:22:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CIEFLFBOEHINGHKPOIEIGEHMCAAA.v-i-n-z@zonnet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010819012201.CB852199ED@mail.cse.psu.edu>

Russ Cox wrote:
> From: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu [mailto:9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu]On Behalf
> Of Russ Cox
> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 3:22 AM
> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
> Subject: Re: [9fans] Running Plan9 under Virtual PC
> 
> 
> I'm halfway through getting
> Plan 9 working under VMware 2.
> I fixed the ethernet driver last night
> and am pounding on vga.
> 

Good luck.

> How does Connectix work?  It looks
> like it does processor and hardware 
> emulation?
> 
> Russ
> 

The docs say the guest PC uses the
CPU in a native fashion. The rest
is emulated.

The technical info provided is pretty terse.
I am not really sure about this, but I believe
the Connectix people were originally in the 
Mac-business, also making PC emulators and suchlike.

That would explain their preference for
omitting technical stuff from the manual.
Philosophy: it works, you don't have to
know how. (Grudgingly, I have to admit
that it *does* work.)

It would also explain why you can only
let one guest PC be active at the same
time. This severely limits the possibilities
for a distributed OS like plan9.
I was looking forward to creating
a terminal, a cpu server, and a file server,
all in one go, but I am not prepared
to switch windows for every 9P message. :)



Keep up the good work,
Regards,
Vincent

PS.
wrap/inst-ing the updates is a lot
faster than the install.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-19 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-19  1:21 Russ Cox
2001-08-19 10:22 ` Vincent van Gelderen [this message]
2001-08-22  8:31   ` Vincent van Gelderen
2001-08-22 21:28     ` Matthew Hannigan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-08-19  0:43 Vincent van Gelderen

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