Re: Re: [9fans] Serious Problem Running Plan 9 on Virtual PC

Re: Re: [9fans] Serious Problem Running Plan 9 on Virtual PC

[gdiaz]

Hola,

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/virtual_machines/index.html

The wiki is a great source of information, use it! :-)

slds.

gabi

-- filipp.andronov@gmail.com wrote:
>
>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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Re: Re: [9fans] Serious Problem Running Plan 9 on Virtual PC

[gdiaz]

Hola,

The wiki has the experiences of the users of plan9 under pc emulators, it is not a general emulator guide.

If you think it is outdated or it is not accurate, you can fix it, on the wiki itself are the instructions to edit its pages.

slds.

gabi

-- eris.discordia@gmail.com wrote:
>
>On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:58:46 -0000, Filipp Andronov
><filipp.andronov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> By the way, do you know some free virtual machine emulator (like
>> VMWare) for linux on what Plan9 could work?
>>
>
>1. Yes. QEMU was developed for Linux, in the first place. The Windows
>binaries are only side effects ;-) QEMU's website:
>http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
>
>2. If I were you, I would not give in to the temptation of trying Plan 9
>on Xen.
>
>3. The Plan 9 wiki article on VMs is a little old. Parallels now has a
>Linux version. VMWare Player (VMWare's really free version), too.
>
>4. Here's a good list and comparison of virtualizers:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_virtual_machines
>
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