Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install

2010-04-18 Thread Patrick Kelly
Hyper-V is negative for 2008r2.

Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install

2010-04-17 Thread Georg Lehner
Joel C. Salomon wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Federico G. Benavento benave...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Joel C. Salomon joelcsalo...@gmail.com wrote: My computer died, so I'm in the market for a new one. I figure I'd like to get back into hacking on

Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install

2010-04-16 Thread Rodolfo (kix)
I am agreed with Federico, vmware. Do not spend time with other emulators. El 15 de abr de 2010, 9:02 p.m., Federico G. Benavento benave...@gmail.com escribió: vmware, the rest just suck, qemu and virtual box being the slowest On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Joel C. Salomon

Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install

2010-04-16 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Federico G. Benavento benave...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Joel C. Salomon joelcsalo...@gmail.com wrote: My computer died, so I'm in the market for a new one. I figure I'd like to get back into hacking on Plan 9 so I plan to install it

Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install

2010-04-16 Thread Patrick Kelly
From: 9fans-boun...@9fans.net [mailto:9fans-boun...@9fans.net] On Behalf Of Rodolfo (kix) Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 2:20 AM To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs Subject: Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install I am agreed with Federico, vmware. Do not spend time with other

Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install

2010-04-16 Thread Patrick Kelly
-Original Message- From: 9fans-boun...@9fans.net [mailto:9fans-boun...@9fans.net] On Behalf Of Joel C. Salomon Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 10:51 AM To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs Subject: Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:56

Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install

2010-04-16 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 16 Apr 2010, at 17:40, Patrick Kelly wrote: From: 9fans-boun...@9fans.net [mailto:9fans-boun...@9fans.net] On Behalf Of Rodolfo (kix) Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 2:20 AM To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs Subject: Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install I am agreed

Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install

2010-04-16 Thread Patrick Kelly
The only emulator you're spending time on is Qemu, the rest are virtualizers or simulators, and there is a significant difference. Emulators are much slower, because of what they have to do. Qemu is capable of full emulation, but when host guest architecture match (or are compatible,

Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install

2010-04-16 Thread James Chapman
This afternoon I downloaded a trial version of VM Fusion (Version 3.0.2 (232708)) and a fresh plan9.iso.bz2 and installed it on my core 2 due macbook running OS X Leopard (Version 10.5.8). It works quite nicely, graphics and networking are both working. The only things that tripped me up were I

Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install

2010-04-16 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 16 Apr 2010, at 18:48, Patrick Kelly wrote: The only emulator you're spending time on is Qemu, the rest are virtualizers or simulators, and there is a significant difference. Emulators are much slower, because of what they have to do. Qemu is capable of full emulation, but when host

[9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install

2010-04-15 Thread Joel C. Salomon
My computer died, so I'm in the market for a new one. I figure I'd like to get back into hacking on Plan 9 so I plan to install it beneath a VM in whatever machine I buy. I'm even considering Windows 7 Pro with Virtual PC, but I think I'd prefer Xen or one of the Linux-based things (VirtualBox,

Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install

2010-04-15 Thread Gabriel Díaz
. slds. gabi - Original Message From: Joel C. Salomon joelcsalo...@gmail.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs 9fans@9fans.net Sent: Thu, April 15, 2010 7:11:49 PM Subject: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install My computer died, so I'm in the market for a new one

Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install

2010-04-15 Thread erik quanstrom
main issue is interrupt count does not go below 4000. . .need to dig more into this, probably to compose a mail to the list :), but it does not hurt too much, at least for now. that shouldn't be happening unless you're doing a lot of disk/network io. if you're using 9atom, one would expect

Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install

2010-04-15 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
i would think that 9vx is the logical choice for linux. the free vmware player works well on vista and win7. i used qemu for a while and it seemed stable and usable. My computer died, so I'm in the market for a new one. I figure I'd like to get back into hacking on Plan 9 so I plan to install

Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install

2010-04-15 Thread Federico G. Benavento
vmware, the rest just suck, qemu and virtual box being the slowest On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Joel C. Salomon joelcsalo...@gmail.com wrote: My computer died, so I'm in the market for a new one.  I figure I'd like to get back into hacking on Plan 9 so I plan to install it beneath a VM in

Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install

2010-04-15 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Apr 15 14:57:21 EDT 2010, benave...@gmail.com wrote: vmware, the rest just suck, qemu and virtual box being the slowest there are relatively easy things we could do to make virtual box better, but as it doesn't run well on linux, it's hard to find the motivation. - erik

Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install

2010-04-15 Thread Gabriel Diaz
Hello erik, Thursday, April 15, 2010, 8:44:08 PM, you wrote: main issue is interrupt count does not go below 4000. . .need to dig more into this, probably to compose a mail to the list :), but it does not hurt too much, at least for now. that shouldn't be happening unless you're doing a

Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install

2010-04-15 Thread erik quanstrom
There are probably better file server configurations, but essentially I don't really trust fossil from a performance or stability standpoint. it's curious that fossil is typically considered the only choice. what about ... - kfs - cwfs - ken's fs in another vm. - erik