From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 13:52:56 +0000 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 From: "Eris Discordia" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.23 (Win32) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4427c26e-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:58:46 -0000, Filipp Andronov 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 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/