>> Rui, please present any issues you had with the step-by-step >> introductions in the fqa to us on the 9front mailinglist in a >> designated thread. > > The main issue for me is putting together a build environment on top > of KVM or Linux, which isn’t covered in the FQA. > > I can’t build 9front on a Pi (well, not in productive amounts of > time), and all the machines i have available with the requisite > horsepower are in the public cloud (except for my iMac and a local KVM > host that is already overburdened with my Windows development VM). > > Since I’m a staunch supporter of CI/CD I’d love to automate the > process from committing code to building a burnable image, and dipping > into 9front from “outside” to run the requisite commands is going to > be a time sink.
It sounds like you are saying you want to 1.) build Plan 9 on Linux, using Linux tools, 2.) and test it by running the result in QEMU/KVM/whatever hosted by Linux. 1.) is the wrong approach. Just build inside Plan 9. 2.) is trivial and is covered in FQA3[0] and FQA5[1]. 9front's fork of drawterm[2] can run without graphics, and can be used to execute single commands. If this is really your aim, I think you can accomplish it with minimal stress. sl [0] http://fqa.9front.org/fqa3.html [1] http://fqa.9front.org/fqa5.html [2] http://drawterm.9front.org
