On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:03:31 -0000, Bakul Shah bitblocks.com> wrote:

I am right now trying (and being disappointed with) VirtualBox which is
essentially QEMU in disguie (or so says the Wikipedia article).

As with VPC, I tried both Plan 9 and FreeBSD on it. The FreeBSD VM is
copying the distribution right now and doing it blazing fast compared to
the sluggish IDE activity on VPC.

Still, Plan 9 would not even boot live on it. Somewhere after choosing
where to boot from, things slow down to a halt and that is it. Seems like
Plan 9 is all too manipulative and these virtualizers would not take that
;-)

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

On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:49:51 -0000, Steve Simon quintile.net> wrote:

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!

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 gmail.com>:

I always used plan9 on native machines.

But yesterday I used plan9 on qemu and worked fine.

Oh! I'm really sorry!
It's so shame, RTFM.... *CONFUSED*
Thanks a lot :)))

2008/2/4, Juan M. Mendez gmail.com>:

On 04/02/2008, Filipp Andronov gmail.com> wrote:

Following the instrucions here:

http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/9faq.html

I downloaded plan9 image on my GNU/Linux machine.
http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/export/vmplan9.tbz

$ tar xvfj vmplan9.tbz
$ qemu -full-screen -net nic -net user p9disk-flat.vmdk

After that, the emulated plan9 worked smoothly and I didnt have to configure
nothing to update plan9 with

%% pull

Thanks! )))

Unfortunately, it is not on english or russian :)

(http://www.fywss.com/plan9/plan9faq.html) is dead. :(

I will try this at evening, but i have little question - what
difference between that image and official one from
pla9.bell-labs.com? :)

On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:56:05 -0000, Filipp Andronov
gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:58:46 -0000, Filipp Andronov
gmail.com> wrote:

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