On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 01:41:45AM -0400, Russ Cox wrote: > > 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
I just pulled from sources and tried to boot in 4.5.2 workstation with an empty CD `drive', but it still doesn't appear to work. Qemu's been working fine for me though :) --Devon
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