> -----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 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 > >> 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, etc.). > >> > >> Ease of installation is important, as is the ability to run a > >> somewhat normal (Windows or Linux) host OS. Are there any recommendations? > >> > > vmware, the rest just suck, qemu and virtual box being the slowest > > How about Xen? Has anyone here had luck wit it?
I haven't tried, but I was going to see if Hyper-V was possible. I've already stated VirtualPC works (conditionally), there's a possibility Hyper-V might too. > —Joel C. Salomon
