From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 01:41:45 -0400 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Best Emulator to Run Plan9 in? In-Reply-To: <4252191F.6080705@golubovsky.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <4252191F.6080705@golubovsky.org> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 33c7a892-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I have just subscribed to this list. I am planning ahead to experiment > with Plan9, but I want to set it up under an emulator (the host system > is Linux with 2.2.16 kernel). I saw some messages from last year > mentioning plan9 running in QEMU. Another emulator candidate would be > Bochs. Could anyone please share their recent experience regarding > running Plan9 in an emulator, are there any serious issues, etc. I have been running Plan 9 in QEMU for the past few days and it has worked well. I put changes on sources a few days ago that correct some problems with the ethernet and disk simulation. I think I also fixed the dreaded "hangs under VMware unless there is a CD in the drive" bug too. It just boots: qemu -cdrom plan9.iso -boot d You can only select graphics depths of 8bpp (e.g., 1024x768x8). Russ