On 4/5/06, Jack Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/5/06, Daniel Soderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can Plan 9 be installed on a x86 Mac Mini? I'd like to have a play > > with Plan 9, but don't want a ugly bitsa PC taking up the space. I > > should be able to do everything remotely on the Plan 9 box just using > > ssh or x windows? > > Plan 9 runs well in QEMU, and there's a friendly port to OSX that > seems to have universal binaries: > > http://www.kberg.ch/q/ > > >From there, you can boot the ISO image directly, do a standard > installation, and have the joy of easy access to a Web browser while > you're learning how to set it up. :) > > Performance on an x86 Mac should be pretty good, but I've only tried > it on PowerPC.
I've been using this all week. It's not too shabby, though the mouse cursor refresh seems a bit choppy. I'm looking forward to seeing what Parallels comes up with and if it will run closer to native speed. I'm happy to shell out 50 bucks for a good hypervisor. :-) One word of caution, don't do the venti install on a large disk partition in an emulator that can't do DMA. Zeroing out the disk is painful enough on real hardware though I think Russ has improved that or will have those improvements available soon. > > SSH does exist for Plan 9, but the remote X alternatives are VNC and > drawterm, as Plan 9 doesn't use X for its native display. > drawterm is like, sent from heaven or something :) > Best of luck, > > -Jack >
