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Date: Mon,  4 Feb 2008 13:58:46 +0300
From: "Filipp Andronov" <filipp.andronov@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Serious Problem Running Plan 9 on Virtual PC
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By the way, do you know some free virtual machine emulator (like
VMWare) for linux on what Plan9 could work?

2008/2/4, Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com>:
> On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:49:51 -0000, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > I have never used VPC or virtual box, but qemu works fine for me on a
> > ppc mac.
> > The install was slow but I expected that, I just started it and went out
> > for
> > a beer. Now its installed it boots and runs fine.
> >
> > -Steve
>
> QEMU Win32 binaries eventually cut the knot for me. Unfortunately, it is
> morbidly slow, especially on disk operations (it took like 50 minutes to
> copy the distro). And the KQEMU kernel driver would not load on my x64
> Windows. Any ideas?
>
> All in all it has been a step forward. Now I have a limping but functional
> Plan 9 installation. Time to learn... ouch!
>
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