Re: [9fans] Kabini or Raspberry Pi?

2014-07-01 Thread Richard Miller
if anyone has any information on Plan 9 and Xen, that would be most welcome too. http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/installing_in_Xen_3.0 This is a paravirtualised kernel which runs on xen; I've used it on an AWS server with reasonable success. With modern intel hardware, it's also

Re: [9fans] Kabini or Raspberry Pi?

2014-07-01 Thread hiro
Been running 9front on kvm lately, and it has even better uptime than my linux vservers. What's the advantage for you guys to use XEN as apposed to kvm/qemu?

Re: [9fans] Kabini or Raspberry Pi?

2014-07-01 Thread hiro
I agree with miller about rpi USB and thus ethernet being kind limited in usefulness. The kirkwood though is a good basis for non-terminals. Even USB disks aren't *that* slow in my experience (10M/s).

Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview

2014-07-01 Thread balaji
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Pierre-Jean pl...@utroff.org wrote: Helped by the various answers and a promotion on a webstore, I've purchased a supermicro x9SCAA motherboard. http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/X9/X9SCAA.cfm That might be working out of the box with one or

Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview

2014-07-01 Thread balaji
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 9:20 AM, balaji balaji.srinivasa+pl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Pierre-Jean pl...@utroff.org wrote: Helped by the various answers and a promotion on a webstore, I've purchased a supermicro x9SCAA motherboard.

Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview

2014-07-01 Thread David du Colombier
I've tried booting from usd cdrom, usb stick both 9labs and 9legacy. it does not recognize them. this is ICH9R that's claimed to be supported. ICH9R should be supported, but the sdiahci driver is not present in the installation kernel (pcflop) from the Bell Labs CD image. You may try this

Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview

2014-07-01 Thread Balaji
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 10:02 AM, David du Colombier 0in...@gmail.com wrote: I've tried booting from usd cdrom, usb stick both 9labs and 9legacy. it does not recognize them. this is ICH9R that's claimed to be supported. ICH9R should be supported, but the sdiahci driver is not present in the

[9fans] Kabini or Raspberry Pi?

2014-07-01 Thread Richard Miller
What's the advantage for you guys to use XEN as apposed to kvm/qemu? http://thecloudmarket.com/image/ami-cfa332ff--plan9-fossil

Re: [9fans] Kabini or Raspberry Pi?

2014-07-01 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
i have put some instructions together -- from Richard's 9fans posts and email correspondences -- on how to install your own kernel once you've made an instance using the AMI that Richard posted. keep in mind that this assumes you have a Plan 9 dev environment and you're generating the kernel in

Re: [9fans] Kabini or Raspberry Pi?

2014-07-01 Thread sl
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Drn3lm0g7C2zdzOj5x9hvhgVln13JoSx-zs_z1KEztI Do you have a version of this document that is accessible from Plan 9? sl

Re: [9fans] Kabini or Raspberry Pi?

2014-07-01 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
as soon as the US-Belgium match is over :) On Jul 1, 2014, at 1:07 PM, s...@9front.org wrote: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Drn3lm0g7C2zdzOj5x9hvhgVln13JoSx-zs_z1KEztI Do you have a version of this document that is accessible from Plan 9? sl

Re: [9fans] Kabini or Raspberry Pi?

2014-07-01 Thread Charles Forsyth
h% ls -l /n/sources/contrib/forsyth/Plan9* --rw-rw-r-- M 3231 forsyth sys 86727 Jul 1 22:35 /n/sources/contrib/forsyth/Plan9ServeronEC2.pdf hget http://www.terzarima.net/dist/Plan9ServeronEC2.pdf | page -w On 1 July 2014 21:07, s...@9front.org wrote:

Re: [9fans] Kabini or Raspberry Pi?

2014-07-01 Thread sl
/n/sources/contrib/forsyth/Plan9ServeronEC2.pdf Thanks! sl

Re: [9fans] Kabini or Raspberry Pi?

2014-07-01 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
Thanks. On Jul 1, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Charles Forsyth charles.fors...@gmail.com wrote: h% ls -l /n/sources/contrib/forsyth/Plan9* --rw-rw-r-- M 3231 forsyth sys 86727 Jul 1 22:35 /n/sources/contrib/forsyth/Plan9ServeronEC2.pdf hget http://www.terzarima.net/dist/Plan9ServeronEC2.pdf |