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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9pm/Plan 9 kernel in user space
From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:06:17 +0100
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Another possible alternative is running both Linux and Plan 9 under
Xen.

> - running Plan 9 alongside my Linux Desktop with reasonable speed

This works fine, if you are content with using VNC to access the
Plan 9 desktop (Xen does not yet export a virtual framebuffer which
would be easily usable as /dev/screen).

> - running CPU and Auth servers on Linux Servers with otherwise small
>   workload

This works extremely well.  I am currently running a Plan 9 server
on a Xen virtual machine provided by a 'virtual hosting' company
(http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk).  I'll post more details after
it's been tested a while longer.

> - doing same thing under Windows, eventually starting under Cygwin

Xen is no help with this one, however.

-- Richard