From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Vincent van Gelderen" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: RE: [9fans] Running Plan9 under Virtual PC Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20010819012201.CB852199ED@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 12:22:58 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e2825aa0-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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.