On Mar 25, 2020, at 3:32 AM, Mark Everett <evere...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Does anyone know of a virtual machine running on current Mac OS that hosts > plan9? Preferably one that isn’t too difficult to set up….
Hi Mark, I run both 9front and 9legacy on macOS with Qemu. The installation of qemu 4.2.0 was a breeze via Homebrew: Mac % brew install qemu The Plan 9 file server VM boots off a virtual disk image that has 9fat, nvram, and fossil. I launch it with the following command: Mac % cd $HOME/plan9/fs && qemu-system-x86_64 -m 512 -name 'file server' \ -nographic \ -no-reboot \ -drive 'if=none,id=hd,file=fossil.raw,format=raw' \ -device 'virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi' -device 'scsi-hd,drive=hd' \ -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=n0,mac=52:54:00:09:09:02 \ -netdev user,id=n0,hostfwd=tcp::564-:564 The Plan 9 terminal boots directly off a 9front kernel supplied on the command line. I launch the VM with this command: Mac % cd $HOME/plan9/terminal && qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -kernel 9pc64 -initrd plan9.ini \ -name terminal \ -no-reboot \ -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=n0,mac=52:54:00:09:09:09 \ -netdev user,id=n0,hostfwd=tcp::8080-:80 2>&1 | grep -v 'multiboot knows VBE' I was testing a simple web server written in Go on the terminal and that’s why I am forwarding tcp port 8080 into it. It took quite a lot of iterations to get these commands right. Hope this helps. Kim ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Ta7f245368d4d10b8-M8bab0704a25927fd5adeee93 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
