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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 on qemu
From: YAMANASHI Takeshi <9.nashi@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:26:46 +0900
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> Happy Holidays!
> may be more neutral to all 9fans.?

Oops.  Sorry for that. :)

> By the what is merrit/demerrit of qemu or Xen.

my humble comparisons between Xen and qemu are:
  - Xen shows a better performance.
  - qemu doesn't need special privilege to install/use.
    but Xen needs to be installed before any other OSes.
  - Xen requires guest OSes to be ported to Xen while qemu doesn't.
  - qemu has a vga device supported by aux/vga while Xen doesn't (yet)

> Xen for servers and qemu for terminal even Windows?

p9 terminal running under qemu would be
an easy way to get around vga hell for free.

Many Linux nodes running Xen could be a possible base
for 9grid nodes. ;)
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