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Plex86 has a long way to go, commendable though the effort is.


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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9 on VMware
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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 20:22:30 +0200

chad writes:
 > From: chad <yandros@mit.edu>
 > Subject: Re: [9fans] 9 on VMware
 > Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:34:09 -0400
 >
 >
 > There's no doubt by anyone that there is potential value in being able
 > to run Plan 9 inside of VMware.  The problem is that VMWare considers
 > the software video system to be proprietary information that they're
 > not currently interested in sharing with outside parties.

There is an open source project very similar to VMware,
http://www.plex86.org/ I don't know its actual state of development,
but maybe it is a good substitute...
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