From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 10:24:58 +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: 4327a8b6-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:49:51 -0000, Steve Simon 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! -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/