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Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 23:03:52 -0600
From: Karl Magdsick <kmagnum@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 on qemu
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Also, QEMU allows x86 OSes to run on non-x86 hardware while Xen does not.

Are the non-x86 Plan9 versions still being actively maintained?


-Karl

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:26:46 +0900, YAMANASHI Takeshi <9.nashi@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.